Facebook Messenger is the thing where everything is minded and you'll get all the AI bots etc.
WhatsApp instead is their chat app for users how don't like Facebook. WhatsApp has way more users than Facebook Messengers. And now they have the PR and even don't have to deal with wiretapping requests anymore.
Once your number had e2e support0, you can't switch to a phone without e2e. Notifications on key changes are switched off by default, but I hope they still warn you in the chat history. We'll see.
You could backup the key like every other account password, too. Save it in your password manager, print it. Whatever. This isn't really an argument.
When Android backups Wifi passwords, those are encrypted with your Google password that Google has only a hash of. Okay, it's easily interceptable the next time you login and Google has an warrant. But still an option.
No. Actually, I would say fake encryption is even dangerous. WhatsApp might not always run end-to-end encryption for compatibility issues, there isn't even a visual indication for encrypted connections, there is no way to verify keys (if at all, they are verified by WhatsApp servers), so leaving a lot of room for all kind of man-in-the-middle attacks. The encryption itself isn't documented, and at the same time WhatsApp had added an option for (likely insecure) cloud backups. Yes, WhatsApp does fake security. But people believe it's secure. Now more than ever.
But those cases are only saying that companies can't comply to disclosure requests. That doesn't say if the encryption itself is weak or if the user has to completely trust that company. Just like the Apple case, where a 4-6 digit PIN is basically protected by Apple's secret firmware and its signing infrastructure.
There is nothing worse than a messenger that is commonly called secure but actually isn't (like the current implementation at WhatsApp). Cryptocat already had a massive disaster related to this problematic. Known as the chat program for activists in danger, it had a mathematical bug that made it nearly as weak as cleartext. Another one: As long as people aren't always explicitly using Secure Chats, Telegram isn't more secure than WhatsApp and doesn't use any end-to-end encryption. Still hyped for its security. While secure clients can definitely exist, most of the famous everyday solutions are just FUD and bullshit.
I have never said that WhatsApp is secure. You seem to have completly missed the point. For people that are above avg in their security need should of course investigate and find the best tool for the job. That has always been true.
Listen to what Im saying. End to end encryption, however badly imemented, rolled out to 300 million people is a extremly big deal.
Just for the fact that it counteracts the belief that only suspect people use encryption. Also even badly implemented end to end encryption stops lazy dragnet survailance. The policy or the FBI simple do not have the ability to MITM billions of messages every day.
Remember that most texting was essentially done in cleartext before this.
In my case using SMS for 2FA only works within their new interface. Whenever an online shop is redirecting to PayPal, it's the old login page (and doesn't notice when already logged in on PayPal), so I basically never receive 2FA codes in that step.
Not sure if just broken or they are using a different SMS gateway that has a problem with my country. It also doesn't really help that 2FA is still only known as hardware tokens within their documentation. It doesn't raise any trust for the PayPal website either.
Also keep in mind they tested all extensions with their default filter lists configuration while it reads like EasyList and EasyPrivacy would be efficient enough. As applying filter rules is basically the main work of those extensions and most extensions can use the same lists, they should have set all to the same lists where possible.
While it's also about liability, there seem to be people deadly allergic to even small amounts of e.g. nuts. Those notices are shown when production machines are also shared used for other products and cleaning is never completely safe.
I like the integrated window control buttons and it has a nicer name than this project. Besides from that both are good wrappers for web.whatsapp.com and have native notifications, notification counter etc.
WhatsApp instead is their chat app for users how don't like Facebook. WhatsApp has way more users than Facebook Messengers. And now they have the PR and even don't have to deal with wiretapping requests anymore.