WhatsApp in India – Schneier on Safety – Cyber Tech

Clive Robinson •

April 30, 2024 10:05 AM

@ ALL,

The sensible options to the “Finish To Finish Encryption”(E2EE) have been identified 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 bear in mind E2EE is only a tiny a part of the privateness downside.

To know why you need to perceive the elemental downside of privateness is that if you’d like it you need to “pay ultimately” by thought and energy, which most are unwilling to do.

Thus people who do grow to be a really clear seen sign nicely above the nicely trimmed grass except they go to significantly further 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 “site visitors evaluation” and different greater stage assaults in opposition to privateness and the attendant prices of preserving 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 “simple life” has grow to be in impact an “Orwellian life”.

As for,

“Sensible criminals will simply transfer to different providers”

Will they?

I truly doubt it, and historical past in current instances reveals the alternative so far as,

“The comfort of digital communications”

The expertise makes the price of mass surveillance ever cheaper for people who revenue by it. And society insists that you simply have to be a part of the mass surveilled at your individual 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 it’s essential contemplate as a part of a workable privateness technique. It’s not simply a number of onerous work, it’s additionally very fragile, and in contrast to a few years in the past nothing on “authorized 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 people who have grow to be inconvenient tomorrow.