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[–] dan@upvote.au 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

There'd be at least some Whatsapp users that chose to use it because it's end-to-end encrypted using Signal Protocol

[–] onlinepersona@programming.dev 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

If you record the screen of somebody typing, it doesn't matter if what they're sending is E2EE.

[–] dan@upvote.au 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

If any popular messaging apps were recording the screen, it would have been discovered by now. Plenty of people are reverse engineering popular apps all the time.

[–] onlinepersona@programming.dev 1 points 10 months ago

That came out wrong. It's just a way to say that E2EE doesn't matter if you're in an environment or app that has control over everything until the actual message is encrypted and sent. Closed source apps are to be trusted much less than opensource apps in this regard.