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On Reddit's r/privacy, you can no longer criticize Facebook (www.reddit.com)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Given the recent detainment of a French person who got detained because he said something bad about the current administration in his WhatsApp messages. It makes me wonder if WhatsApp is truly end to end encrypted as they claimed. How did they even single him out?

As a corollary question, if I were to pass Customs, and if I delete WhatsApp , Reddit etc just before I reach the counter, will they be able to find out that I just deleted the apps minutes ago? I’ll be deleting them from my phone but keep them on the cloud.

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[-] [email protected] 41 points 2 months ago

Another deleted comment

Note, it seems you are not allowed in this reddit to express an opinion containing doubt about the security of WhatsApp - it will be removed by mods. As such, you can not read the replies here and form a judgement about what the consensus is.

carrotcypher (mod) 1 point 3 days, 1 hour ago

Or, you know, obvious astroturfing as an excuse to promote alternatives is against the rules.

[-] [email protected] 26 points 2 months ago

Astroturfing is when you say something I'm paid not to like

[-] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago

Or, you know, obvious astroturfing as an excuse to promote alternatives is against the rules.

The irony of that statement is that it ultimately seems like they are the ones astroturfing here.

this post was submitted on 25 Mar 2025

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