Your device is an endpoint, it’s leaking the information to Meta, that isn’t a MITM.
Unless you redefine the end in e2e to mean your eyes, it’s still e2e encrypted.
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orclev@lemmy.world 1 week agoIf you can bypass it in the middle it is by definition not end to end encryption. The entire point of end to end encryption is that only the endpoints are able to decrypt the messages and everyone in between only has access to the encrypted messages. If that’s not the case that’s just normal encryption not end to end.
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floofloof@lemmy.ca 1 week ago
I think we’re dealing with weasel lawyer words here. Meta can boast that messages E2E encrypted between you and the recipient, but that implies nothing about key storage or security, or about other channels through which message data could be sent directly from your app before it is encrypted.