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0 pointsslim5y ago0 comments

unless you flex your cryptoanarchist power and enshrine strong encryption into your architecture. what WhatsApp did. make it costly for the new owner to change their minds.

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wizzwizz45y ago

They still managed, though. Facebook has the technical ability to just walk around all of your encryption.

slimOP5y ago

not past conversations thanks to forward secrecy

wizzwizz45y ago

Except they control the app that shows you those conversations. Unless you deleted them, they have the technical ability to see them.

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monadic25y ago

Surely you can't be using WhatsApp as an example of strong encryption.... that app is hardly auditable.

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wizzwizz45y ago

They still managed, though. Facebook has the technical ability to just walk around all of your encryption.

slimOP5y ago

not past conversations thanks to forward secrecy

wizzwizz45y ago

Except they control the app that shows you those conversations. Unless you deleted them, they have the technical ability to see them.

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monadic25y ago

Surely you can't be using WhatsApp as an example of strong encryption.... that app is hardly auditable.

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