WhatsApp is a proprietary messaging app developed for the Facebook Ecosystem.The Android client is censoring videos. Should WhatsApp have a say in what media...
It kind of depends on your definition of “end-to-end”. Normally, what people mean is from one communication partner (i.e. human) to the other. If you use a software to do the encrypting and decrypting, it should be open-source and verifiable. The WhatsApp client is not that. It is an attack vector and it takes in your message in unencrypted form.
Oh that’s cool! That doesn’t really stop them from snooping as you type the message, though. I know fb does (or used to), so why not their chat app. Also, if all they’re doing with the video censoring is checking the hashes, then they’re not snooping (though they still shouldn’t censor chats).
Whatsapp uses the signal protocol, hence end-to-end. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/WhatsApp#Technical
It kind of depends on your definition of “end-to-end”. Normally, what people mean is from one communication partner (i.e. human) to the other. If you use a software to do the encrypting and decrypting, it should be open-source and verifiable. The WhatsApp client is not that. It is an attack vector and it takes in your message in unencrypted form.
Oh that’s cool! That doesn’t really stop them from snooping as you type the message, though. I know fb does (or used to), so why not their chat app. Also, if all they’re doing with the video censoring is checking the hashes, then they’re not snooping (though they still shouldn’t censor chats).
hashing is still a form of snooping tbh. especially when paired with other metadata
but ofc its not as direct