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[–] sunbeam60@lemmy.one 8 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I actually don’t really understand how they would do this. Isn’t WhatsApp end to end by protocol? They’d have to share messages at the client side. What a mess.

[–] x00z@lemmy.world 16 points 1 week ago

They want to force WhatsApp to scan your private messages on your device.

[–] rimjob_rainer@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

End-to-end encryption is worthless, when it's done by a company like meta in a closed source project.

[–] sunbeam60@lemmy.one 4 points 1 week ago

If you own the client, you own the message, agreed.

[–] randombullet@programming.dev 3 points 1 week ago

End to end encrypted with keys stored on Meta's servers.

Just kidding but I'm sure there's a backdoor somewhere.