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 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 drawback.

To know why you need to perceive the basic drawback of privateness is that if you would like it you need to “pay not directly” by thought and energy, which most are unwilling to do.

Thus those who do change into a really clear seen sign properly above the properly trimmed grass until they go to significantly additional effort. So the value of privateness rises but additional. The identical goes for different points to do with the ends of the communications channel which provides rise to “visitors evaluation” and different greater stage assaults in opposition to privateness and the attendant prices of retaining 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 change into in impact an “Orwellian life”.

As for,

“Good criminals will simply transfer to different companies”

Will they?

I truly doubt it, and historical past in latest occasions exhibits the other so far as,

“The comfort of digital communications”

The know-how makes the price of mass surveillance ever cheaper for those 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 entice 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 occasions through the years what it’s essential contemplate as a part of a workable privateness technique. It’s not simply lots of exhausting work, it’s additionally very fragile, and in contrast to a few years in the past nothing on “authorised channels” is ephemeral any extra. This “report all of it” coverage I’ve likened to those that surveil making an attempt to construct a “Time Machine” in order that they will take info and strategies from now and apply it to what occurred within the long gone to punish those who have change into inconvenient tomorrow.