alt Hacker NewsPeople here like it, but end-to-end encryption is an objectively worse user experience for people that don't care about that feature
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iamcalledrob • today at 11:07 AM
I would argue that WhatsApp's e2ee user experience is pretty decent, and didn't get worse when they introduced encryption.
But then again, their technical model has always been "fat client, dumb server" from the start.
CodeCompost • today at 6:12 AM
How is it a worse experience? It's ridiculously simple: The app sends a public key to the person you're talking to. The end user doesn't even need to notice it. What am I missing here?
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traderj0e • today at 6:46 AM
Well except for the people here who love IRC. They must not like e2ee.
To me part of using E2EE is not because I have something to hide but because I have friends who work in human rights that do have something to hide.
I think of it not as a consumer feature but rather quite foundational for a working democracy.