Miguel Afonso Caetano on Nostr: "Over many years, EFF has been pushing for users to switch to platforms that ...

"Over many years, EFF has been pushing for users to switch to platforms that understand the value of encrypting data. We have also been pushing platforms to make end-to-end encryption for online communications and for your stored sensitive data the norm. This type of encryption helps ensure that a conversation is private between you and the recipient, and not accessible to the platform that runs it or any other third-parties. Thanks to the combined efforts of our organization and dozens of other concerned groups, tech users, and public officials, we now have a lot of options for applications and platforms that take our privacy more seriously than in previous generations. But, in light of recent political developments it’s time for a refresher course: which platforms and applications have encrypted DMs, and which have access to your sensitive personal communications.

The existence of what a platform calls “end-to-end encryption” is not foolproof. It may be poorly implemented, lack widespread adoption to attract the attention of security researchers, lack the funding to pay for security audits, or use a less well-established encryption protocol that doesn’t have much public scrutiny."

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/02/when-platforms-and-government-unite-remember-whats-private-and-what-isnt

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