[OtherShrezzing]

This is what a layman would assume happens from Meta’s WhatsApp advertising. They show the e2e process, and have the message entirely unreadable by anyone but the phone owner.

[kevin_thibedeau]

e2e means unreadable by a middleman. That is a small inconvenience if you can readily compromise an endpoint.

[Almondsetat]

People keep talking about e2ee as if it was some brain-to-brain encoding that truly allowed only the recipient person to decrypt the message