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I'm not much for conspiracy theories, but it's interesting to note that The Guardian actually recommends people concerned about surveillance to stop using Whats
by roddux 10y ago
I'm not much for conspiracy theories, but it's interesting to note that The Guardian actually recommends people concerned about surveillance to stop using WhatsApp, without offering any alternatives.
>If you use WhatsApp as a way to avoid government surveillance due to its end-to-end encryption service, you should stop using it immediately.
In the wake of the UK snoopers charter having sailed through parliament, this seems odd. Occam's razor tells us that it's coincidence and bad reporting, but still.
- tptacek 10y agoState security services can't buy this kind of PR with money; only a cocktail of vanity and incompetence can do it.
- m3ta 10y agoOccam's razor is a good guide to avoid critical thinking.
- dijit 10y agoTheGuardian was also one of the publications allowed access to the unfettered and uncensored Snowden documents.
- idlewords 10y agoThe Guardian is a big place. Note that this article was written by a freelancer. It's not a coded signal to the readership to beware; it's an egregious error of editorial judgement, followed by doubling down to avoid admitting error.
- TillE 10y agoThey also fucked up catastrophically when handling documents from Wikileaks: https://wikileaks.org/Guardian-journalist-negligently.html https://wikileaks.org/Guardian-journalist-negligently.html
- makomk 10y agoThe Guardian recommends that if people do need to switch as a result of this, they switch to Signal: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/jan/13/whatsapp-encryption-backdoor-snooping-signal https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/jan/13/whatsapp-... As far as I can tell, this has been their recommendation ever since their first article about this was published.
- roddux 10y agoAh, seems I'd completely missed this one! Thanks for the link.