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FBI warns users to encrypt text messages for cybersecurity. Here's how to do it (www.usatoday.com)
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[–] bobs_monkey@lemm.ee 26 points 5 days ago (2 children)

What's rich is the FBI promoting WhatsApp. Yeah, not a fucking chance.

[–] pdxfed@lemmy.world 15 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Yeah we can all trust Meta, who never should have been allowed to purchase Whatsapp for antitrust reasons exactly like this. Whatsapp was innovative and very successful outside the US, rather than compete with their own decent product Facebook just absorbed them and gulped their users.

[–] foxitixation@lemmy.zip 14 points 5 days ago

That is why Signal exists.

[–] ozymandias117@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago

Not to be too conspiratorial, but isn't that a pretty good indicator that Meta capitulated and put a backdoor in WhatsApp for them?