I was listening to a podcast and there was an ad for WhatsApp with the whole premise that if you don’t use end to end encryption for your text messages, that those texts are as easy to view as it is listening to a podcast, which made me think: is that really true? Because I wouldn’t even know where to start to see someone else’s texts, nor would I be interested and I’m sure the average everyday person wouldn’t need to worry about it right?
Am I missing something? Is there a way that anyone can input my number and suddenly have access to all my texts?
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End to end mean that only you and the other person you are sending to can read the message.
So whatsapp will be the one helps setting up a secure conversation, after that only 2 users can read the message inside that conversation. Not even whatsapp can know what you sent from here.
The point is the company (whatsapp) won’t have access to your message, not making your message more secure. Because if you don’t use end-to-end, the message should still go through secure connections, just one more node (you-whatsapp-other).
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