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Interestingly my girlfriend has been using What's App to communicate with her family in Venezuela cheaply throughout the last week since they've been unable to
by gmjosack 13y ago
Interestingly my girlfriend has been using What's App to communicate with her family in Venezuela cheaply throughout the last week since they've been unable to get any news. It's really sad to see the government act this way and hopefully the realize that they're causing a lot of unrest in their citizens. It's always inspiring to see citizens standing up to the government in all these other countries. you see some protests in the States but it never feels near the scale.
- higherpurpose 13y agoLet's hope Whatsapp doesn't have a deal with the Venezuelan government for access to its data, too, then? http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/07/messaging-apps-government-reach_n_3399316.html http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/07/messaging-apps-gove... If I were them I wouldn't take the risk, and use something more secure. Here's a list of open source secure messaging apps she or others could use: http://missingm.co/2014/02/fighting-dishfire-the-state-of-mobile-cross-platform-encrypted-messaging/ http://missingm.co/2014/02/fighting-dishfire-the-state-of-mo...
- nzonbi 13y agoFrom my experience, I can tell that they have irrestricted access to whatsapp and facebook.
- kaonashi 13y agoWhen you're under full assault from the US intelligence agencies, sometimes you overreact.
- tsotha 13y agoI doubt the US is involved. What would be the point? It's been obvious for years eventually the government would run out of other peoples' money and fail to deliver basic services. Once you start in with price controls the end is near.
- kaonashi 13y agoThey've been involved for years… they're going to sit this one out?
- tsotha 13y agoWhat evidence do you have the US intelligence agencies are involved in Venezuela?
- kaonashi 13y agoAre or were? Were, there's plenty. Are -- well we're talking about a covert agency, no?
- tsotha 13y agoWhat is the latest incident you can document involving US intelligence agencies and Venezuela?
- kaonashi 13y agoDocument? Going by Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Pliers http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Pliers. Venezuela.info has quite a bit of info going back a decade or so. The point of the comment is not to definitively state anything, merely conjecture. If you'd like to debunk said conjecture, feel free; but asking for documentation seems beside the point.
- kjs3 13y agoInvoke the boogie-man of "US spies" and open fire on your own people. FTFY.