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dancemethis1

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    Comment #22328675

    "WhatsApp had used Signal's open-source protocol to encrypt all WhatsApp communications end-to-end by default" Allegedly*. Since Whatsapp is proprietary, it can't be proven that Op…

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    Comment #22246147

    The thing that's really bad is that it's proprietary.

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    Comment #22241179

    They are busy tampering with OpenWhisper.

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    Comment #22241100

    Well, none of it matters since Discord is hostile software. No language will solve their privacy-trampling deeds.

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    Comment #22203758

    FUD "against" proprietary software is pretty much the "reverse racism" of technology. Again, there is no proof OpenWhisper wasn't tampered with. It'd take WhatsApp becoming Free So…

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    Comment #22170935

    Another day, another leak of proprietary software collecting and selling sensitive user data. Hopefully Discord's day is coming soon.

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    Comment #22117517

    Funny. Discord is the one line I will refuse to cross on yielding my data and metadata. They _are_ downright dangerous. Their CEO's previous project, OpenFeint, already had a priva…

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    Comment #21577518

    ...Are people going to believe this?

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    Comment #21481741

    Grabbing all that user data and metadata has its share of computing cost. But hey, the higher-ups will profit from it so it's ok.

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    Comment #21481734

    Don't thank people actively working on proprietary software bent on hindering people's rights to privacy and freedom.

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    Comment #21150784

    They won't. People are not really giving a crap for their (and their peers') safety. Just look at how popular Discord is alongside FB.

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    Comment #21150762

    Since WhatsApp is proprietary on both client and server side, it can't be proven that OpenWhisper wasn't tampered with. And chances are always against users when we speak of propri…

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    Comment #20574911

    Good job, now you're giving your personal information not to one, but to two different proprietary craps.

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    Comment #19495132

    So... A website clearly intended to be a parody due to its name, but still taken seriously by people that didn't get it?