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> We all know Meta can still read E2EE chats That can't be true, otherwise in what sense is it E2EE?
by cristoperb 6mo ago
> We all know Meta can still read E2EE chats
That can't be true, otherwise in what sense is it E2EE?
- gzread 6mo agoIn the sense that calling it E2EE gives people a warm fuzzy feeling and makes people send more sensitive information over the platform. Has anyone actually audited it?
- babelfish 6mo agoProbably their auditors? Lying about this would be tantamount to (very serious) securities fraud. Not sure what you're basing on your allegations on besides "trust me bro"
- Supermancho 6mo ago[dead]
- gzread 6mo agoWhy would lying about having E2EE be securities (as in stock market) fraud? Would that make any lie ever told by a corporation equate to stock market fraud?
- interestpiqued 6mo agoI mean you can read it in your app and they're not just stored on your phone. E2E just means in transport from what I understand.
- SAI_Peregrinus 6mo agoE2EE means end-to-end, where the ends are the participants in the chat. They can read it on your phone, but not on their servers. They need their app to separately transmit the plaintext to their servers to read it.
- interestpiqued 6mo agoSo literally what I was implying
- throwaway173738 6mo agoWhich is technically possible.
- duskdozer 6mo agoWell, I've seen services describe having "E2EE" where one end is your computer and the other end is their server, so...
- vaylian 6mo agoThe metadata is still unencrypted. That also reveals quite a bit.