Here’s what end-to-end encryption protects—and what it doesn’t

“Earlier in May, the Texas Attorney General’s office sued Meta for deceiving users on the level of security offered by end-to-end encryption on WhatsApp. E2EE is used as a catch-all term to describe secure messaging features across a lot of different apps, but these apps each apply different implementation standards and the level of security is never the same. You should not assume that all your communications are safe from interception just because your messaging app supports E2EE.” Worth reading because too many just assume if the packaging says E2EE, it’s all good. In some cases you must actually enable E2EE for specific chats, and in the case of Meta the WhatsApp metadata gets shared elsewhere. Seems Signal is still the best out of the mainstream centralised account-based messengers. There are though many decentralised and completely private messengers, but good luck to finding any of your friends there, or convincing them to switch to anything different. See…