A 17-year-old from Nebraska and her mother are facing criminal charges including performing an illegal abortion and concealing a dead body after police obtained the pair’s private chat history from Facebook, court documents published by Motherboard show.
Anyone happen to know if this was chat history through Facebook Messenger or WhatsApp? WhatsApp claims end to end encryption doesn’t it? I thought they say Facebook Messenger is also encrypted, but not end to end.
Probably WhatsApp but even if it isn’t we have to “assume” (certainly they’re doing it) that they’re are sniffing through every of your WhatsApp messages too.
The main point to know is if you do not encrypt it with keys generated localy on your machine and encrypt it locally, then you can not be sure it really is E2E encrypted. If a corporation does it for you with their keys they can ready anything so this kind of E2E is more or less marketing bullshit and Apple is guilty of this too.
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Anyone happen to know if this was chat history through Facebook Messenger or WhatsApp? WhatsApp claims end to end encryption doesn’t it? I thought they say Facebook Messenger is also encrypted, but not end to end.
Probably WhatsApp but even if it isn’t we have to “assume” (certainly they’re doing it) that they’re are sniffing through every of your WhatsApp messages too.
This was messenger, and before Facebook even claimed to have E2E encryption on it. Chill.
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The main point to know is if you do not encrypt it with keys generated localy on your machine and encrypt it locally, then you can not be sure it really is E2E encrypted. If a corporation does it for you with their keys they can ready anything so this kind of E2E is more or less marketing bullshit and Apple is guilty of this too.