Notices

1. Klaus Jónsson Zimmermann (alternative acc) (kzimmermann2@gnusocial.club)'s status on Friday, 20-Jan-2017 02:13:56 CET Klaus Jónsson Zimmermann (alternative acc)

   • Privacy
   1. WhatsApp has a backdoor that can be used to decrypt your "end-to-end encrypted" texts.
   2. People discover said backdoor (I guess through poking around or reverse engineering, since it's proprietary and code inspection isn't possible) and warn WhatsApp about it.
   3. WhatsApp acknowledges existence of backdoor, says it's intentional ("it's not a bug, that's our design!") and they won't bother fixing it.
   4. Millions of people continue using communications that can be actively intercepted, because they were told that some "encryption" thing they know nothing about would protect them.
   
   Why am I not surprised here?
   
   https://gnusocial.club/url/40013
   
   Don't use #WhatsApp. Just don't.
   
   !privacy
   • Storm Dragon repeated this.
   • Storm Dragon (storm@social.stormdragon.tk)'s status on Friday, 20-Jan-2017 13:38:31 CET Storm Dragon

     in reply to
     Any time you use proprietary apps and rely on them for security, you will be disappointed, at the very least. It's just amazing that WhatsApp got such popularity in the first place, it's not even as good as XMPP lol. It's amazing how people are willing to trade security and functionality for like 5 minutes worth of convenience...