WhatsApp is already E2E encrypted, it always has been. There’s a circlejerk around here about “not true E2E!”, but that’s just straight up nonsense.
Comment on Google Messages just flicked the switch on end-to-end encryption for all RCS and group chats
EyesEyesBaby@lemmy.world 10 months ago
As an Apple owner I hope Apple will implement this too. I live in a country where everybody communicates through WhatsApp unfortunately.
Steeve@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
Ape550@lemmy.world 10 months ago
What do you mean? iMessage is fully end to end encrypted.
As far as google messages RCS goes, that’s googles proprietary version of RCS.
stinky613@lemmy.sdf.org 10 months ago
I think they might mean they wish Apple would support RCS in general (which Apple has been refusing to do)
mr_tyler_durden@lemmy.world 10 months ago
For good reason. Honestly anyone pushing for RCS is an idiot or doesn’t understand what they are pushing for.
Among many issues (including E2E missing by default) the idea of giving any control back to carriers is just stupid.
Carighan@lemmy.world 10 months ago
You’d rather have the yellow billion dollar company have full control instead of the cyan one? Who cares, it makes no difference! 🤷
At least RCS is a standard. That’s not a big plus in this particular case, but it is one, and none of the other walled gardens have an equivalent thing to even bring to the table.
MKBandit@lemmy.world 10 months ago
The carriers don’t control RCS they kept trying but gave up
Ubermeisters@discuss.online 10 months ago
Look at that ratio, must be a lot of us idiots around huh
Telodzrum@lemmy.world 10 months ago
iMessage is not fully E2E encrypted unless you have advanced data protection turned on. If you don’t, the keys to your conversations still rest on Apple’s servers.
SulaymanF@lemmy.world 10 months ago
That’s untrue. The keys are generated on your device and Apple doesn’t have those stored. You need apple devices to grant access for another device as Apple doesn’t have your key. There’s other security holes where apple can generate new keys but that doesn’t change the fact that it is actually E2E encrypted.
Postis2@lemmy.world 10 months ago
It’s not open source so no way to really trust it
Starmina@lemm.ee 10 months ago
I don’t think it’s true as long as you don’t make iCloud Backups
feifei@lemm.ee 10 months ago
This is the correct answer.
bassomitron@lemmy.world 10 months ago
It’s full E2E encryption even without that turned on. However, just because something is encrypted doesn’t mean it’s secure, as you point out.
Regardless, governments/organizations have gotten very good at finding vulnerabilities and exploiting them before academic and/or private sector security groups discover the same vulnerabilities, who will then go and publish their findings which eventually leads to them getting patched. As a side note: For anyone interested in some modern hacker/cybersecurity history, I recommend reading the book, Sandworm by Andy Greenberg. It’s pretty damn wild what it covers and that’s only a fraction of the modern state of global cyber warfare (and yes, just about the entire world has been engaged in what pretty much amounts to cyber warfare/espionage/sabotage for the last 10-15+ years).
Earthwormjim91@lemmy.world 10 months ago
No that’s only for iCloud backups of your iMessages.