alt Hacker News> We all know Meta can still read E2EE chats
That can't be true, otherwise in what sense is it E2EE?
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vaylian • yesterday at 7:12 AM
The metadata is still unencrypted. That also reveals quite a bit.
gzread • last Tuesday at 11:37 PM
In the sense that calling it E2EE gives people a warm fuzzy feeling and makes people send more sensitive information over the platform.
Has anyone actually audited it?
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interestpiqued • last Tuesday at 11:38 PM
I mean you can read it in your app and they're not just stored on your phone. E2E just means in transport from what I understand.
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Well, I've seen services describe having "E2EE" where one end is your computer and the other end is their server, so...