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I think I have to decrypt this url before I can open it

/edit: I did it! I was able to decrypt it!

https://faq.whatsapp.com/414631957536067/

When you report a user in an individual chat, WhatsApp receives up to five of the last messages they’ve sent to you.

This particular function is not at odds with E2EE. The client can either:

• Send decrypted messages to the server. This is flawed because a malicious client can fake them, setting someone up for a ban;
• Send the keys so that the server can decrypt the messages. Depending on how often keys are rotated, this might leak a couple more messages than intended.

Well not nothing. Android apps are quite easy to reverse engineer so there would be a high risk of them getting caught which would be quite damaging for WhatsApp's brand.

none of their users would care. but also good luck finding a news site that cares to write about it and has some reach

There is certainly nothing technical stopping them from doing it, but that's true of Signal too.

isn't signal built reproducibly, without obfuscation?

Yeah, I don't know who thought that was a good idea to advertise. It'd be like Betty Crocker cake boxes suddenly saying "Uranium Free!".

Like, yes, I wouldn't expect food to usually have added uranium too it, so why are you saying it?...

The only time I remember feeling genuine panic at a software update was years ago when my laptop suddenly decided it urgently had to restart. It took longer than I'd expected to boot up again and it kept showing the message 'All your files are exactly where you left them'.

I have no idea how or why but that really felt like a threat 🤣 of course when it finally turned on I was scouring all my folders trying to remember what I had where to see what they'd accidentally deleted. I felt stupid for being so suspicious then went online and 'all your files are exactly where you left them' was already turning into a meme. It made people angry as hell.

And thinking about it, if someone is unlocking their front door and you interrupt them to say 'excuse me, sorry, just wanted to say: all the stuff in your bedroom is exactly how you left it,' they probably would not feel reassured.

It is not a reassuring thing to hear. Anyway, fuck meta.

Half of messengers advertise privacy