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A comment on “Why Using WhatsApp Is Dangerous“. Parent comment

Re:“Why Using WhatsApp Is Dangerous“ by BoppreH on Friday January 31, 2020 @07:16AM (#22201029)
The problem is that many users think they are using E2E, because that's what Telegram advertises. Those people needed security, and looked for it, and are now vulnerable.

Besides, security and privacy should be the default. It's not like the user experience of WhatsApp is drastically worse for having E2E.

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Re:“Why Using WhatsApp Is Dangerous“ by anoncake on Friday January 31, 2020 @07:27AM (#22201073)
> The problem is that many users think they are using E2E

Source, please.

> Besides, security and privacy should be the default.

Not at the cost of usability and freedom. Especially considering E2E encryption isn't necessary to protect against the attackers most people can expect.

> It's not like the user experience of WhatsApp is drastically worse for having E2E.

It absolutely is. WhatsApp doesn't even allow you to use multiple devices!

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Re:“Why Using WhatsApp Is Dangerous“ by icebraining on Friday January 31, 2020 @10:44AM (#22202554)
>> It's not like the user experience of WhatsApp is drastically worse for having E2E.

> It absolutely is. WhatsApp doesn't even allow you to use multiple devices!

I'm pretty sure you couldn't use multiple devices before they implemented E2E.

By the way, how does E2E cost freedom?

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Re:“Why Using WhatsApp Is Dangerous“ by anoncake on Saturday February 08, 2020 @04:57AM (#22274980)
It doesn't, I conflated Signal/WhatsApp and E2E. Sorry.
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