Facebook to integrate the infrastructure for WhatsApp, Instagram and Messenger

Re:Facebook to integrate the infrastructure for WhatsApp, In... by mtgx on Friday January 25, 2019 @12:48PM (#19000385)

> Yes, they could serve you a MITM key, but it would be easily discoverable when you compare security codes in the client.

Who does that for every conversation? Or even once per week/contact?

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Re:Facebook to integrate the infrastructure for WhatsApp, In... by bronco21016 on Friday January 25, 2019 @06:14PM (#19003533)

Or use a client like Signal that tells you when the key has changed.

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Re:Facebook to integrate the infrastructure for WhatsApp, In... by exacube on Friday January 25, 2019 @01:01PM (#19000492)

security researchers

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Re:Facebook to integrate the infrastructure for WhatsApp, In... by vinay_ys on Friday January 25, 2019 @01:24PM (#19000744)

So put them in a cohort and treat them differently than the rest of the users? Personalised key exchange? Possibilites are endless. If you don't trust the closed source operator here, then that end to end encryption should mean nothing for you.

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