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Re:Facebook account now required to login to Oculus devices by slim on Tuesday August 18, 2020 @03:35PM (#24203294)
unless you flex your cryptoanarchist power and enshrine strong encryption into your architecture. what WhatsApp did. make it costly for the new owner to change their minds.
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Re:Facebook account now required to login to Oculus devices by wizzwizz4 on Tuesday August 18, 2020 @04:01PM (#24203632)
They still managed, though. Facebook has the technical ability to just walk around all of your encryption.
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Re:Facebook account now required to login to Oculus devices by slim on Tuesday August 18, 2020 @04:15PM (#24203801)
not past conversations thanks to forward secrecy
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Re:Facebook account now required to login to Oculus devices by wizzwizz4 on Tuesday August 18, 2020 @04:22PM (#24203868)
Except they control the app that shows you those conversations. Unless you deleted them, they have the technical ability to see them.
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Re:Facebook account now required to login to Oculus devices by Polylactic_acid on Tuesday August 18, 2020 @09:45PM (#24206374)
Exactly. Literally nothing stops them from pushing an update that uses your device to decrypt your history and send it back to facebook.
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Re:Facebook account now required to login to Oculus devices by monadic2 on Wednesday August 19, 2020 @03:20AM (#24207995)
Surely you can't be using WhatsApp as an example of strong encryption.... that app is hardly auditable.
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