Open Whisper Systems Partners with Google on End-To-end Encryption for Allo

Re:Open Whisper Systems Partners with Google on End-To-end E... by ikeboy on Wednesday May 18, 2016 @06:54PM (#11726675)

Are you assuming that all storage ends up on Google's servers (because that's what hangouts does, maybe)?

Why can't it store E2E chats locally and never upload to google, or even encrypt with a passphrase like Chrome sync does?

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Re:Open Whisper Systems Partners with Google on End-To-end E... by ComodoHacker on Thursday May 19, 2016 @06:27AM (#11729165)

Congrats, you have dug it down to the core. Google just doesn't need chats that it can't mine for useful data.

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Re:Open Whisper Systems Partners with Google on End-To-end E... by ikeboy on Thursday May 19, 2016 @06:50AM (#11729238)

Then why build E2E at all?

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Re:Open Whisper Systems Partners with Google on End-To-end E... by ComodoHacker on Thursday May 19, 2016 @07:18AM (#11729335)

To stay competitive (or perceived so).

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Re:Open Whisper Systems Partners with Google on End-To-end E... by ikeboy on Thursday May 19, 2016 @07:26AM (#11729363)

So you're suggesting Google crippled the feature so it doesn't get used? This seems unlikely.

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Re:Open Whisper Systems Partners with Google on End-To-end E... by tdkl on Friday May 20, 2016 @05:50AM (#11736614)

For Google privacy is a problem, since they want as much data they can get. So they've put in "incognito" so it sounds modern enough what competitors have with E2E, but they'll try and make it inconvenient and not default as much as they can.

Of course they won't be open about this, because they're making the world a better place <insertcuteemojihere>

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