WhatsApp in India – Schneier on Safety – Craf Teco

Clive Robinson •

April 30, 2024 10:05 AM

@ ALL,

The sensible options to the “Finish To Finish Encryption”(E2EE) have been recognized for a really very long time. Claude Shannon gave if a basic mathematical proof again getting on for a century in the past within the early 1940’s if not earlier.

However we have to keep in mind E2EE is only a tiny a part of the privateness drawback.

To know why it’s a must to perceive the elemental drawback of privateness is that if you need it it’s a must to “pay indirectly” by thought and energy, which most are unwilling to do.

Thus those who do turn out to be a really clear seen sign nicely above the nicely trimmed grass until they go to significantly further effort. So the worth of privateness rises but additional. The identical goes for different points to do with the ends of the communications channel which supplies rise to “visitors evaluation” and different increased stage assaults towards privateness and the attendant prices of protecting it[1].

Now think about who this price rise advantages and who it harms… Worse the way it’s enabled each technologically and sociologically.

All for the sake of apparant comfort… Thus an “straightforward life” has turn out to be in impact an “Orwellian life”.

As for,

“Good criminals will simply transfer to different providers”

Will they?

I really doubt it, and historical past in current instances exhibits the alternative so far as,

“The comfort of digital communications”

The expertise makes the price of mass surveillance ever cheaper for those who revenue by it. And society insists that you just have to be a part of the mass surveilled at your personal expense or be an outcast.

The factor is that few even who learn this weblog, realise that we’re,

“Sleep strolling right into a lure of our personal making.”

Like lambs to the slaughter…

Thus the query is what are “we” –the harmed– going to do towards these harming us?

[1] I’ve talked about many instances through the years what you could think about as a part of a workable privateness technique. It’s not simply a variety of exhausting work, it’s additionally very fragile, and in contrast to a few years in the past nothing on “permitted channels” is ephemeral any extra. This “report all of it” coverage I’ve likened to those that surveil trying to construct a “Time Machine” in order that they will take info and strategies from now and apply it to what occurred within the long gone to punish those who have turn out to be inconvenient tomorrow.