Re:WhatsApp and most alternatives share the same problem
by Andrew_nenakhov on Friday February 26, 2021 @07:52AM
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XMPP lost popularity long before the public became (unhealthily) obsessed with encryption.
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Re:WhatsApp and most alternatives share the same problem
by argvargc on Friday February 26, 2021 @11:03AM
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Care to explain? I can't think of a single example where encrypting a private message passed over a public network would be unhealthy.
Re:WhatsApp and most alternatives share the same problem
by Andrew_nenakhov on Monday March 01, 2021 @09:15AM
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Users do not understand that E2EE means no easy device syncing and no serverside search, they just want to feel 'safe', but are not ready to perform such necessary things as fingerprint verification. And without verifying the identity of the remote party, E2EE is totally meaningless.
Telegram's far better UX than Whatsapp is possible because they do not have e2ee on anything but Secret Chats (and I've never seen anyone on Telegram using them). See, for most users the promise of security is better than actual security and all attached UX problems.