Re:Does your video call have End-to-End Encryption? Probably...
by kreetx on Thursday April 02, 2020 @04:42AM
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For those not in the know, how is vbr dumb?
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Re:Does your video call have End-to-End Encryption? Probably...
by GeorgeWBasic on Thursday April 02, 2020 @04:55AM
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Leaks information about the voice stream. It's not inconceivable that a well trained algorithm could recover sentences from the transmission pattern, although I don't know for sure if it could do quite that well.
Re:Does your video call have End-to-End Encryption? Probably...
by topkeks on Thursday April 02, 2020 @04:51AM
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For example eavesdroppers know who is speaking at the moment among other nasty issues.
Re:Does your video call have End-to-End Encryption? Probably...
by tialaramex on Thursday April 02, 2020 @09:13AM
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If they actually cared about offering a secure product that would be enough all on its own.
Compare over in the SSH discussion IdentitiesOnly a feature that avoids the relatively smaller leak of potentially allowing an adversary to correlate your identity if you voluntarily connect to their server.