My guess is that they implemented e2ee (or at least they claimed to do it) so people wouldn’t be as likely to switch to actually secure messaging platforms. “See here, pleb, our systems are very secure too. You don’t want to switch to Signal, and your friends are all here anyhow”
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artyom@piefed.social 3 weeks agoThe shocking thing was that they implemented it in the first place.
jaennaet@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
Dojan@pawb.social 3 weeks ago
You cannot convince me that it was true end to end encryption. They had an eye in every chat.
eager_eagle@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
well, they can have true E2EE and still be able to read or exfiltrate the messages, because they control both ends…
artyom@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
I wouldn’t try to LOL
But there is valid reasoning for it. The metadata is equally as valuable as the actual content. That’s why WhatsApp is so profitable. If more people are using it then it could be seen as worth the tradeoff.