Google unveils end-to-end messages for Gmail. Only thing is: It's not true E2EE

by HypnoticOcelot on 4/4/2025, 1:41:51 AM with 5 comments

  • by remram on 4/4/2025, 4:02:10 AM

    > end-to-end messages

    As opposed to what? I think they accidentally a word.

  • by mojomark on 4/4/2025, 3:34:33 AM

    I don't get it.

    Isn't the goal to prevent someone from hacking into your email account and reading your email? If someone already hacked I to Alice's email account, and pretends to be her to access the decryption key (which they can do because they can prove they have control of the account - which is all key access requires), then they can decrypt the message.

    Seems pretty pointless, unless I'm missing a key point (perfectly possible)