> When Sandberg, Facebook’s COO, was asked by U.S. lawmakers in early September if WhatsApp still used end-to-end encryption, she avoided a straight yes or no, saying, “We are strong believers in encryption.”
Wow. That's rather troubling.
EDIT: WhatsApp still claims to use end-to-end encryption. It was probably just a case of Sandberg not knowing the answer.
Even more worrying is "messages will remain end-to-end encrypted. There are no plans to change that."
Doesn't this mean that everything but messages will be open for exploitation?
This is clearly why they're already targeting status updates. Once they figure out if you're male or female then the deeper profiling can begin. A sad day.
It's a little like the Evil Maid problem. Mr Zuck has his fingers on the WhatsApp keyboard and you can be sure there's trouble ahead.
To be honest, I'm not convinced she knows the technicality behind e2e encryption. I never understood what is the value she is bringing to facebook (beside marketing herself very well)
My understanding is that she understands the business side extremely well, i.e. establishing and maintaining relationships with the big advertisers, figuring out what the most lucrative ads platform looks like in the early days, etc.
I agree she probably does not understand the technical side all that well, but that's not her job.
