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> I find the recommendation to just use Whatsapp weird. For most WhatsApp users, the alternative to WhatsApp for most people is unencrypted SMS, which gives me
by CiPHPerCoder 9y ago
> I find the recommendation to just use Whatsapp weird.
For most WhatsApp users, the alternative to WhatsApp for most people is unencrypted SMS, which gives metadata and the contents of the communication to anyone with modest skill and a $50 budget. I like to think WhatsApp's use of the Signal protocol makes it preferable to SMS.
- thewhitetulip 9y agoSo you'd rather give y;ur metadata to whatsapp which gives it to facebook than use telegram because there is a little chance that you'd be hacked? Strange choice as far as I am concerned
- mullen 9y agoThe majority of people want privacy in their messages and are not really concerned with their metadata. Whatsapp fills that role and much better than telegram.
- thewhitetulip 9y agoWhat definitive proof do you have that Whatsapp does really use encryption? Facebook's word?
- mullen 9y agoI think we would found out by now that Whatsapp was not really encrypting messages. Plus, Moxie said they were using the Signal Protocol Lib for encrypting messages and I trust him 100x's more than any person who does not release information about their encryption and says, "trust us, our encryption works." From the Signal Blog: "Signal Protocol powers our own private messaging app, Signal. The protocol is designed from the ground up to make seamless end-to-end encrypted messaging possible and to make private communication simple. To amplify the impact and scope of private communication, we also collaborate with other popular messaging apps like WhatsApp, Google Allo, and now Facebook Messenger to help integrate Signal Protocol into those products."