lumpenproletariatNov 7
applogies
Show threadapotheotic (she/her)Nov 8
WhatsApp for business communications? Jesus
Show threadmoseschruteNov 8
What’s  is for business, and signal is for official government communication
Show threadbuddascrayonNov 8
Both are quite secure but neither of them stop an idiot on one end or the other from sharing the contents with the public.
Show threadhypnicjerkNov 8
whatsapp is closed source and meta owned. i think it’s incredibly foolish to trust that it has no backdoors built in.
Show threadbuddascrayonNov 9
That’s not how encryption works. But you’re not wrong about it being owned by meta being a problem. There’s more info in a message than just the contents.
Show threadMadhuGururajan

you say that but they’re already thinking a step ahead and assuming meta left a backdoor or CVE at the behest of 3-letter agencies.

What’s facebook’s business plan? Right, surveillance capitalism.

Nov 9 at 4:43amWeb
Show threadairgappedNov 9
I assume no encryption is safe from three letter gangs, at this point I’m only concerned with keeping grubby corporate fingers at bay.
Show threadptuNov 9
IIRC whatsapp’s automatic backups are stored in cloud and unencrypted by default. So it takes only one person in the group chat to who has backups enabled (pop up comes every now and then if they’re not) and no password is set (not required, takes effort and will to set) to leak everyone’s messages.