• miss_brainfart@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    How sure can one be with proprietary apps that the users are in fact the only ones who can decrypt their messages?

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      1 year ago

      The thing is that today you dont even need access to the coversation when you have metadata. Imagine, a woman calls a number of center for planned parenthood, is on the phone for 20 mins. Then she calls a number of her gyno doc for couple mins. Then her phone is located at that gyno doc a week later for 2 hours or whatever it takes. Do you need to decrypt the conversation? You already know what was discussed.

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        1 year ago

        I mean that’s one very specific scenario. Also you wouldn’t be able to call any of those places on WhatsApp or IG Messenger.

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          Who you associate with, what people/services you call and what places you frequent is way, way more interesting than knowing the actual contents of your messages. I mean they’d probably obviously prefer both, but if you had to pick one, metadata is more valuable.

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            1 year ago

            What data is available is not so important to me as what data could be used against me in a court of law.

            Bit of a moot point regardless as there are plenty of private messengers.