Comment by kevin_thibedeau
17 hours ago
e2e means unreadable by a middleman. That is a small inconvenience if you can readily compromise an endpoint.
17 hours ago
e2e means unreadable by a middleman. That is a small inconvenience if you can readily compromise an endpoint.
People keep talking about e2ee as if it was some brain-to-brain encoding that truly allowed only the recipient person to decrypt the message
because it used to be that the ends and the middlemen were different entities.
In the universe where they are the same entity (walled-gardens) there is only the middleman.
In such cases you either trust them or you don’t, anything more is not required because they can compromise their own endpoints in a way you can not detect.