WhatsApp in India – Schneier on Safety

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 elementary 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 grasp why you must perceive the basic drawback of privateness is that if you would like it you must “pay in a roundabout way” by thought and energy, which most are unwilling to do.

Thus those who do change into a really clear seen sign effectively above the effectively trimmed grass except they go to significantly additional 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 greater stage assaults in opposition to privateness and the attendant prices of conserving it[1].

Now contemplate 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 change into in impact an “Orwellian life”.

As for,

“Sensible criminals will simply transfer to different companies”

Will they?

I truly doubt it, and historical past in current instances reveals the other 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 should 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 in opposition to these harming us?

[1] I’ve talked about many instances over time what you should contemplate as a part of a workable privateness technique. It’s not simply a number 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’ll take data and strategies from now and apply it to what occurred within the gone to punish those who have change into inconvenient tomorrow.