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[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I'm actually really not concerned about foreign governments spying on me but I am bothered by my own government, the guys with the guns who can arrest me, doing it.

Tho I suspect if the government is recommending ways to avoid messages being intercepted, they've already cracked how to intercept them.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 week ago (2 children)

What's rich is the FBI promoting WhatsApp. Yeah, not a fucking chance.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yeah we can all trust Meta, who never should have been allowed to purchase Whatsapp for antitrust reasons exactly like this. Whatsapp was innovative and very successful outside the US, rather than compete with their own decent product Facebook just absorbed them and gulped their users.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago

That is why Signal exists.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Not to be too conspiratorial, but isn't that a pretty good indicator that Meta capitulated and put a backdoor in WhatsApp for them?