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Re: Social-media antipathy (was Re: How i can optimize my operating system?)



On Thu, Mar 18, 2021 at 05:03:49AM +0100, deloptes wrote:
> Celejar wrote:
> 
> > I'm not sure whether you're being serious or facetious, but WhatsApp
> > apparently has genuine end-to-end encryption, using the Signal protocol,
> > and neither of the ends is Facebook.
> > 
> > Of course, it's closed source, so we can't know for sure what's really
> > in there, and I certainly won't use it, but as far as anyone knows, it
> > is the real deal:
> 
> come one - as soon as you are hooked to the internet, you are exposed. The
> only way to ensure truly encrypted communication is to do the
> encryption/decryption offline.

Come on, as soon as you go out to the street you can be run over by a
bus...

You'll still take some precautions, as it might enhance your odds of
survival :)

> Why should I bother with your encryption efforts, when I can read your
> screen?

This is a good point: one of the weak points of E2E encryptions is, indeed,
the one end. The other is... the other end ;-)

Cheers
 - t

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