Re:700M users and Premium
by klyrs on Sunday June 19, 2022 @09:18PM
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E2EE plus arbitrarily invasive clent-side sniffing/reporting should not be considered "E2EE" by any means. Even if reports to the mothership are strongly encrypted (at which point it becomes harder to determine what's in the reports).
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Re:700M users and Premium
by scrollaway on Monday June 20, 2022 @01:42AM
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I agree with you, but the claim that Facebook is decrypting and reencrypting things is a very very very severe one.
I didn't claim they are. But they can. And without transparency, I have very little inclination to trust. I find it plausible that they'd scan for keywords and phone home when they get hits -- advertising businesses are not known for their scruples and fb has not distinguished itself in that regard. Once that machinery is in place, it's ripe for abuse. I don't claim any proof it's happening, but it would be naive to blindly trust that it isn't.