Re:WhatsApp encryption is useless
by skrebbel on Wednesday May 11, 2016 @03:15PM
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Yes, to all your questions except the last one. That's the whole point. If I intend to overthrow president Trump, I won't use WhatsApp. Most other purposes, seems pretty fine now.
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Re:WhatsApp encryption is useless
by mikegerwitz on Wednesday May 11, 2016 @04:33PM
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> Yes, to all your questions except the last one.
I'm sorry, but I don't understand. You are okay with a provably vulnerable system protecting some of life's most important assets.
Could you elaborate?
> That's the whole point. If I intend to overthrow president Trump, I won't use WhatsApp.
You made a blanket statement about the integrity of purportedly secure systems. These exact arguments can apply just as well to other systems, like Tor, or SSH, or HTTP over TLS.