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so you can report a message thread to fb for abuse and then contractors check the messages to verify for said abuse. how is this news? it's the equivalent of taking a screenshot of a whatsapp thread and reporting that, doesn't affect e2e encrpytion in any way.
I thought WhatsApp is end to end encrypted, no?! The article is written confusingly. It looked as if Facebook has private keys, and WhatsApp is not end to end encrypted. But considering this: >> Those contractors, which Facebook acknowledges, reportedly spend their days sifting through content that WhatsApp users and the service's own algorithms flag. Does Facebook use automated tools and perform “Client-side Scannin…
Same here. I think so too. It was validated by OpenWhisper systems.
so you can report a message thread to fb for abuse and then contractors check the messages to verify for said abuse. how is this news? it's the equivalent of taking a screenshot of a whatsapp thread and reporting that, doesn't affect e2e encrpytion in any way.
If someone other than sender or recipient can read messages -- it's not E2E.
I thought WhatsApp is end to end encrypted, no?! The article is written confusingly. It looked as if Facebook has private keys, and WhatsApp is not end to end encrypted. But considering this: >> Those contractors, which Facebook acknowledges, reportedly spend their days sifting through content that WhatsApp users and the service's own algorithms flag. Does Facebook use automated tools and perform “Client-side Scannin…
Same here. I think so too. It was validated by OpenWhisper systems.
It's just that the receivers are leaking.
What I find the most shocking about all this is that people believe Facebook when they said it was E2E. If you can't inspect for yourself the default assumption should be that they're lying. I even recall recommending Signal to friends -- nope. We use WhatsApp it's E2E so even safer than Signal or Telegram that are deceitful as you have to use secret chat to get E2E! All these FB messenger advocates seem to have the…
Just a minor correction, Telegram is the one that is only E2E encrypted via their secret chat feature. Signal is E2E encrypted at all times, and open source.
so you can report a message thread to fb for abuse and then contractors check the messages to verify for said abuse. how is this news? it's the equivalent of taking a screenshot of a whatsapp thread and reporting that, doesn't affect e2e encrpytion in any way.
If someone other than sender or recipient can read messages -- it's not E2E.
so you can report a message thread to fb for abuse and then contractors check the messages to verify for said abuse. how is this news? it's the equivalent of taking a screenshot of a whatsapp thread and reporting that, doesn't affect e2e encrpytion in any way.
Wait until journalists find out about the chat export feature of WhatsApp. Or the share button. Think how much juicy clickbait could be written about those features.