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Austrian government agrees on plan to allow monitoring of secure messaging (www.reuters.com)

submitted 2 days ago by schizoidman@lemmy.zip to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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[–] Ulrich@feddit.org 1 points 1 day ago (2 children)

E2EE comms are not monitorable. That's like, the whole purpose of using them.

[–] bndkt@lemm.ee 1 points 3 hours ago

You just have to infiltrate one end, e.g. the smartphone of one party

[–] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 2 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Article talks about Austrian spooks getting tipped about a concert attack by UK spooks that got it from WhatsApp?

[–] slackness@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 day ago

Can you really talk about E2EE on a closed source app? The whole point of E2EE is I don't trust the vendor. If they give me a blob as a client and tell me it's E2EE, am I supposed to just trust them all of a sudden?

[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 2 points 1 day ago

Zucc shares the info