But my point is that the way end-to-end encryption is implemented currently doesn&#x27;t even accomplish that: Either you trust your messenger provider not to be complicit in any surveillance or data mining activities, then plain TLS (with key-pinning) is enough to save you from being snooped - or you don&#x27;t trust them, then you&#x27;re not actually protected as they could push an update at any time to sidestep the encryption.<p>There are certain cases were current end-to-end encryption brings more security - e.g. if a provider&#x27;s data center is compromised but the provider itself isn&#x27;t. But those seem like edge cases to me that don&#x27;t justify the attention the feature is currently getting.