• MarmiteLover123 [comrade/them, any]@hexbear.net
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      25 days ago

      It’s wild. I remember a younger gen z tell me (their tutor) that they had cheated on online university exams during COVID on WhatsApp. More secure than text messaging (end to end encryption) at least, but I made sure that they deleted the messages for everyone so I wouldn’t be forced to snitch.

      • abc [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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        25 days ago

        No, unless you think them receiving funding between 2012-2016 through the Open Technology Fund (which is a nonprofit that receives/received grants from the federal United States Agency for Global Media) means they are ‘compromised’ lol.

        Anyways I’d argue that if you’re worried about the US government compromising an E2E encrypted messaging app, you probably should be more worried about the fact that every telecomm company in the US is more than willing to bend over backwards and provide the US government with open access to every message/piece of data that is sent through their towers without needing any legal reason to do so, whereas Signal can only provide the telephone number associated with an account in response to a warrant because they literally don’t have anything else.