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Perhaps, in actual fact, posturing on end-to-end encryption is the fig leaf for a lack of investment in education, policing and social care. After all, talk is cheap.

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I find a lot of people really do not even understand end-to-end encryption. It's okay not to understand it as a concept because infosec isn't in everyone's wheelhouse. I am most annoyed at the politicians that pretend to know. Information security is not easy. End-to-end security is all well and good, but what's the use of encryption if the metadata can still be deciphered, doxxed, and used potentially against somebody.

[-] silverbax@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Agreed, and I'm also annoyed at so many people who do understand end-to-end encryption immediately accept that if an app uses it, it's automatically secure and safe. The entity implementing it, and how they do it, also matters.

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