… and I can’t even continue the chat from my phone.

  • JoeyJoeJoeJr@lemmy.ml
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    5 months ago

    “They” is the browser/browser maker. The browser, acting as the client, would have access to the keys and data. The browser maker could do whatever they want with it.

    To be clear, I’m not saying they would, only that it defeats the purpose of an E2E chat, where your goal to to minimize/eliminate the possibility of snooping.

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      5 months ago

      You realize that your kernel which loads keys into memory can also access all this right? So can anything which shares memory space on the platform.

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        The bigger risk is browser exploits, not just who develops it. There’s more attack surface and more ways to exfiltrate data