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This is an article written by telegram's founder and CEO Pavel Durov in 2019 on "Why whatsapp will never be secure". Your thoughts?

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

This is a very good reminder why one should worry about the new messaging standard for interoperability.

WhatsApp users resilient enough not to fall for constant popups telling them to back up their chats can still be traced by a number of other tricks – from accessing their contacts’ backups to invisible encryption key changes [13]. The metadata generated by WhatsApp users – logs describing who chats with whom and when – is leaked to all kinds of agencies in large volumes by WhatsApp’s parent company [14].

It even might result in me thinking that we should have to ban facebook from entering the fediverse because people are lazy and don't switch to the real fediverse if they can see your posts and contact you directly.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

This is not about getting the data. This data is public.

It's about market power