WhatsApp encryption and the case for Signal
Whether a company the size of Facebook can actually resist peeking at what moves through WhatsApp is the question nobody wants to sit with. The encryption label is doing a lot of trust work there, and people keep handing over their most private stuff on the strength of it. Signal exists for exactly that doubt, which tells you something about how settled the answer really is
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the whatsapp thing is a way bigger deal than people realize why is that why do you feel that so many people use that for like their most intimate messages and of course they say they're encrypted but like fuck off encrypted for for like maybe randoms but like the people that you would care you know what i'm saying yeah i feel like there was some controversy around that like a year or two ago it's like this is i mean that's why signal exists really like none of these apps actually encrypted. And I like to think about it. Facebook, at that size, they can't not monitor messages, brother. They can't. They'll get in trouble. We talk about how the internet is messing with all of us all the time. So if you're into that kind of thing, definitely hit follow.
