Ex-WhatsApp cybersecurity head says Meta endangered billions of users

Posted by mdhb 5 days ago

Ex-WhatsApp cybersecurity head says Meta endangered billions of users(www.theguardian.com)

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princevegeta89 5 days ago|

It will be so foolish of anyone to think that WhatsApp is a truly e2e encrypted messaging platform.

another_twist 5 days ago|

Why ? You think Meta removed the privacy layers or put backdoors in place ? I mean if that's the suspicion, maybe we should read the terms of service and see if they actually guarantee E2E encryption

princevegeta89 5 days ago|||

Every message we send via this service still most likely goes through it's bots that try to gather user context.

I'm guessing there will be some tricky legal wording in their T&C that wouldn't rule them out from being an intermediate entity that can see messages.

alex1138 5 days ago|||

The way Zuckerberg tricked Acton and Koum is by itself enough for me not to trust Whatsapp. Even from a hypothetical "their encryption works but that's really scummy" perspective

It was bought as a power play, consolidation of tech power. Why would I trust them to do the right thing?

_DeadFred_ 4 days ago|

If a company can become a mega company by having billions of users, small violations must be treated as larger. At some point impacting millions/hundreds of millions of human years a year by your practices rises above the 'it's a small inconvenience to a single person'.

You are costing society/humanity millions/hundred of millions of human years. That is not a 'small inconvenience' at this scale.

cindyllm 4 days ago|

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