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One trust is lost, it's hard to regain it. The fact is, the WhatsApp client is not open source, there are no reproducible builds, and only thing you have is tru
by miroljub 2y ago
One trust is lost, it's hard to regain it. The fact is, the WhatsApp client is not open source, there are no reproducible builds, and only thing you have is trust in them.
If you live in an authoritarian state with a track record of spying on individual citizens, and without legal protection for the privacy of foreign citizens, it's legitimate to decide not to trust a company like Meta headquartered in the USA.
- immibis 2y ago> The fact is, the WhatsApp client is not open source, there are no reproducible builds, and only thing you have is trust in them. That is not strictly true. It is possible to reverse-engineer the client. It's unlikely that anyone will find the motivation to do so, but there's no law of physics that says they can't. You can theoretically review the code that is running on your device - it's just harder than with an open source reproducible build.