I bet they do on-device TLS MITM. Not sure how easy it is to do that these days, but let’s assume. What’s more interesting is what they do with the actual payload extracted from these encrypted sessions. Like, for videos in the hundreds of megabytes range. What and where analyzes that content? —e
On 25.06.2025, at 06:35, Andy Ringsmuth via NANOG <nanog@lists.nanog.org> wrote:
"Will Chirp detect and block harmful content in encrypted messaging apps? Yes, encrypted apps are among the most dangerous apps for children and our embedded technology will be capable of filtering harmful encrypted content and will alert you to any threats.”
Uhh, yeah, right… Like Apple, Signal, WhatsApp (ok, sorry bad example) and others are going to hand over their encryption keys to some clueless startup?
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