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The creator of whatsapp cared a lot about privacy. So even after selling the company to facebook he warranted that facebook could not read the messages. That wa

The creator of whatsapp cared a lot about privacy. So even after selling the company to facebook he warranted that facebook could not read the messages. That was because fb promised him that they had spent a fortune on the company but they didn't wanted to change anything(yeah, if you can believe that I have a tower in the center of Paris to sell you). Of course, this made Facebook people extremely angry, and they had lots of arguing about it. In the end the man left (losing a lot of money in the process)and of course they can read your messages now. They had specifically been working on that for something like a year or so. A team inside facebook was created just for that. Messages are not encrypted by users, they are encrypted by a closed source application that facebook controls 100%. They just modify the software and force an update. It is not magic. If you can write the source code you can do anything you want.

justapassenger 7y ago
> The creator of whatsapp cared a lot about privacy. So even after selling the company to facebook he warranted that facebook could not read the messages. While that's true on one hand, it's also misleading on the other. When whatsapp was acquired in 2014, it wasn't e2e encrypted. Only by 2016 that it was utilizing full e2e encryption. So while founders did care about privacy, for first 8 years of product life e2e encryption wasn't a thing. It's much easier to add very complex feature like e2e encryption once you have infinite amount of money, coming from facebook. >In the end the man left (losing a lot of money in the process) Not earning extra 100s millions of dollars, after you earned many billions, is not something easy to get a sympathy for. Amount of money they left on the table is mostly a rounding error for their bank account.
netsharc 7y ago
> The creator of whatsapp cared a lot about privacy. They didn't even have TLS in the early versions... https://web.archive.org/web/20110523235136/http://www.yourdailymac.net/2011/05/whatsapp-leaks-usernames-telephone-numbers-and-messages/ https://web.archive.org/web/20110523235136/http://www.yourda...

justapassenger 7y ago

> The creator of whatsapp cared a lot about privacy. So even after selling the company to facebook he warranted that facebook could not read the messages. While that's true on one hand, it's also misleading on the other. When whatsapp was acquired in 2014, it wasn't e2e encrypted. Only by 2016 that it was utilizing full e2e encryption. So while founders did care about privacy, for first 8 years of product life e2e encryption wasn't a thing. It's much easier to add very complex feature like e2e encryption once you have infinite amount of money, coming from facebook. >In the end the man left (losing a lot of money in the process) Not earning extra 100s millions of dollars, after you earned many billions, is not something easy to get a sympathy for. Amount of money they left on the table is mostly a rounding error for their bank account.

netsharc 7y ago

> The creator of whatsapp cared a lot about privacy. They didn't even have TLS in the early versions... https://web.archive.org/web/20110523235136/http://www.yourdailymac.net/2011/05/whatsapp-leaks-usernames-telephone-numbers-and-messages/ https://web.archive.org/web/20110523235136/http://www.yourda...