Anna LarchMar 4
taco, bird/cat 

"but if we implement e2ee, then bad people will be able to send bad things without us knowing!"

they already do this, but sure. keep lying to yourself

Mar 4 at 2:00pmWeb
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@chirpbirb honestly a lot of e2ee seems to be the opposite, "if we implement e2ee, we're not liable for the bad stuff sent, since it's not just in plaintext on our servers"

at least in terms of corpo-platform e2ee where you're either strongly encouraged to, or have to, use a web client (which they could trivially send a backdoor through)

it's protecting against non-hostile but listening servers, i guess

Show thread❌Mar 4
@chirpbirb did you also read the bbc article about tiktok and no encrypted dms?
Show threadtaco, bird/cat Mar 4
@mstar it's why i posted this lmao
Show thread❌Mar 4
@chirpbirb and it gave me enough motivation to completely block that sad attempt at imitating journalism
Show threadtaco, bird/cat Mar 4
@mstar totally valid
Show threadWorld Basement ClassicMar 4
@chirpbirb "If we implement E2EE, we don't get to arbitrarily decide what is 'bad' and police it accordingly!"
Show threadsylvieMar 4
@chirpbirb and if they dont implement e2ee, someone else will do it (and itll probably actually be decent) so maybe thats a good thing