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The U.K. Government Is Very Close To Eroding Encryption Worldwide (www.eff.org)
submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

I'm aware, but most software utilizing E2EE are maintained by corporations. If those companies want to operate in the UK, they will need to implement a back door, most companies utilize encrypted traffic to and from their server rather than E2E, and most people don't know someone outside of the UK able to create a vpn tunnel that isn't operated by a company. I'm willing to bet that the UK is also prepared to leverage lawsuits and warrants against individuals that write encryption algorithms without a back door, regardless of what country they live in. I'm willing to bet github and gitlab also don't want to take the risk in hosting encryption algorithms that don't comply.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

But are e2e from big corp REALY e2e? Like whatsapp? How many cases there were "Whatsapp Chats from the attacker showed that they were backed by terrorists" or so. Github.... was github EVER encrypted? or Gitlab? They dont want big corporation rather "small" open source like the matrix chats or other sorts of real encrypted chats.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (2 children)

End To End Encryption (E2EE) is a very precise term meaning that something gets encrypted on your device and doesn't (usually can't) get decrypted by anything other than the destination. I don't know what they call it, but if Whatsapp calls it E2E then it's a misnomer. They encrypt to and from their central server, which is not E2EE.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

WhatsApp claims it is true e2ee. Do you have evidence of it not?

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 years ago

That what i said