WhatsApp E2EE Debate
The cluster focuses on debates about WhatsApp's end-to-end encryption claims, trustworthiness due to Facebook ownership, closed-source concerns, potential backdoors, and metadata privacy issues.
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WhatsApp is end to end encrypted, but its owned by Facebook who can’t be trusted so it does not preserve privacy at all.
WhatsApp is closed source, isn't it? What kind of assurance do we have that these messages still aren't regularly sent to Facebook, unencrypted ?
Whatsapp is end to end encrypted and won't have the data.
WhatsApp is end-to-end encrypted.
Just because whatsapp says it's end-to-end encrypted doesn't mean that they don't have access to your (locally generated) keys.
Whatsapp makes the claim the messages/calls are end-to-end encrypted.(But the app is also running on each end, where the unencrypted messages live. There's nothing stopping that app from sharing those messages directly with FB.)
WhatsApp isn't more a end-to-end-to-adds "encryption" ?
Because WhatsApp is not end to end encrypted. /s
Wasn't it WhatsApp that sent a key back to Facebook servers? Technically it's end-to-end encrypted, but Facebook could decrypt it if they really wanted to.
WhatsApp lacks authentication by default.Also, WhatsApp sometimes doe use a server key to encrypt your messages instead of e2e encryption, which basically means that if FB wanted to they could listen in on some communications at will (such as at request of law enforcement, etc):https://www.theguardian.com/technology/20