WhatsApp in India – Schneier on Security

Clive Robinson •

April 30, 2024 10:05 AM

@ ALL,

The sensible options to the “End To End Encryption”(E2EE) have been recognized for a really very long time. Claude Shannon gave if a basic mathematical proof again getting on for a century in the past within the early 1940’s if not earlier.

But we have to keep in mind E2EE is only a tiny a part of the privateness downside.

To perceive why it’s a must to perceive the basic downside of privateness is that if you’d like it it’s a must to “pay in some way” by thought and energy, which most are unwilling to do.

Thus people who do turn out to be a really clear seen sign properly above the properly trimmed grass until 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 “traffic analysis” and different larger stage assaults in opposition to privateness and the attendant prices of maintaining it[1].

Now think about who this value 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 “easy life” has turn out to be in impact an “Orwellian life”.

As for,

“Smart criminals will just move to other services”

Will they?

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

“The convenience of electronic 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 walking into a trap of our own 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 through the years what you might want to think about as a part of a workable privateness technique. It’s not simply lots of onerous work, it’s additionally very fragile, and in contrast to a few years in the past nothing on “approved channels” is ephemeral any extra. This “record it all” coverage I’ve likened to those that surveil trying to construct a “Time Machine” in order that they’ll take info and strategies from now and apply it to what occurred within the long gone to punish people who have turn out to be inconvenient tomorrow.