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Re:Launching Default End-to-End Encryption on Messenger by blackoil on Wednesday December 06, 2023 @11:00PM (#38552676)
Who wants this? All the effort and few thousand users paying 20 USD / year doesn't make much profit. The world is happy with the encryption WhatsApp provides and would have been happy even if that wasn't there.
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Re:Launching Default End-to-End Encryption on Messenger by toomuchtodo on Wednesday December 06, 2023 @11:35PM (#38552873)
Also iMessages. 135M users in the US.
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Re:Launching Default End-to-End Encryption on Messenger by Dah00n on Thursday December 07, 2023 @02:59AM (#38553989)
It also isn't really encrypted. The really juicy bits (metadata) is available for Apple to read as it sees fit.
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