Comment on Meta found liable in child exploitation case

• Puddinghelmet@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  How do they get the key? Isn’t that stored on me and my chatpartners literal phone? You can only get is by physically unlocking it? Show me proof or don’t say that

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  • borari@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Did you run gpg yourself to generate the key pair, then exchange pub keys with your chat partner? Or did Facebook generate the keys for you from within a closed source application?

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    • Puddinghelmet@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      if it has a backdoor it’s literally not end-to-end encryption at least, and they say it is so… idk

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      • borari@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        You’re misunderstanding what end-to-end encryption is. If they have a copy of your private key, it’s still end to end encrypted. The alternative would be akin to an SSL termination proxy, where your device would encrypt a message using Facebooks public key, they decrypt message, store it, and then Facebook uses your chat partners public key to encrypt and send to them. You cannot send an encrypted message straight through to your chat partner. What I’m insinuating is that there’s no way to know if Facebook has a copy of your private key. The message is still end-to-end encrypted, it is encrypted by you using your chat partners public key, and passes through all of Facebooks infrastructure encrypted, until your chat partner receives and decrypts it. If Facebook stores the message, it’s stored encrypted. They can just decrypt it when subpoenaed or whenever they want bc they have the required private key.

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  • locahosr443@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    ‘Show me proof meta is a bad actor or I’ll just take their word they aren’t’

    I guess that’s an opinion to have…

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    • Puddinghelmet@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      truth lmao

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