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WhatsApp “end-to-end encrypted” messages aren’t that private after all
news.movim.eu / ArsTechnica · Wednesday, 8 September, 2021 - 21:33
Enlarge / The security of Facebook's popular messaging app leaves several rather important devils in its details. (credit: WhatsApp )
Yesterday, independent newsroom ProPublica published a detailed piece examining the popular WhatsApp messaging platform's privacy claims. The service famously offers "end-to-end encryption," which most users interpret as meaning that Facebook, WhatsApp's owner since 2014, can neither read messages itself nor forward them to law enforcement.
This claim is contradicted by the simple fact that Facebook employs about 1,000 WhatsApp moderators whose entire job is—you guessed it—reviewing WhatsApp messages that have been flagged as "improper."
End-to-end encryption—but what’s an “end”?
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This snippet from WhatsApp's security and privacy page seems easy to misinterpret. (credit: Jim Salter )
The loophole in WhatsApp's end-to-end encryption is simple: the recipient of any WhatsApp message can flag it. Once flagged, the message is copied on the recipient's device and sent as a separate message to Facebook for review.
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Vous quittez WhatsApp pour Telegram ? Attention si vous migrez vos conversations
news.movim.eu / Numerama · Friday, 29 January, 2021 - 18:13
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WhatsApp sécurise désormais certaines fonctions avec votre doigt ou votre visage
news.movim.eu / Numerama · Thursday, 28 January, 2021 - 17:43
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Transfert de données vers Facebook : WhatsApp est menacé par une amende record en Europe
news.movim.eu / Numerama · Monday, 25 January, 2021 - 09:20
Voitures, vélos, scooters... : la mobilité de demain se lit sur Vroom ! https://www.numerama.com/vroom/vroom//
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Good news everyone!
Timothée Jaussoin · pubsub.movim.eu / Movim · Monday, 18 January, 2021 - 12:36 edit
So it seems that we doubled our daily registrations the past few days 🎉 .
Thanks to #WhatsApp lots of new people are discovering XMPP and its ecosystem . We also recently rolled-out an improved and simplified flow for the registration process. You can find it there Register on movim.eu and share the link around.
We will also communicate soon about some big news about #Movim itself, stay tuned 😉
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Les utilisateurs fuient WhatsApp : l’app retarde ses nouvelles règles controversées
news.movim.eu / Numerama · Monday, 18 January, 2021 - 10:01
Voitures, vélos, scooters... : la mobilité de demain se lit sur Vroom ! https://www.numerama.com/vroom/vroom//
L'article Les utilisateurs fuient WhatsApp : l’app retarde ses nouvelles règles controversées est apparu en premier sur Numerama .
