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WhatsApp threatened with legal action in Germany over Facebook data sharing deal

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Re: WhatsApp threatened with legal action in Germany over Facebook data sharing deal

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Post by subliminalpanda »

watwatwatwat wrote: post #2

Good! Time to move to telegram! And delete your facebook account! And uninstall whatsapp! I expect nothing less from HN.

I don't care too much for Facebook but WhatsApp has become essential to communicate with almost everyone I know.

Re: WhatsApp threatened with legal action in Germany over Facebook data sharing deal

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Post by sroecker »

watwatwatwat wrote: post #2

Good! Time to move to telegram! And delete your facebook account! And uninstall whatsapp! I expect nothing less from HN.

Please do not use Telegram. It' closed source and uses some half-baked crypto. Signal is open source and is actually end-to-end encrypted.

Re: WhatsApp threatened with legal action in Germany over Facebook data sharing deal

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Post by khabaal »

watwatwatwat wrote: post #2

Good! Time to move to telegram! And delete your facebook account! And uninstall whatsapp! I expect nothing less from HN.

I would not entrust my data to telegram either. Enrolling your own crypto protocol [MTProto] is, in my opinion, something which you should not do.

They also have a nice privacy policy, which is worth looking at: https://telegram.org/privacy

Re: WhatsApp threatened with legal action in Germany over Facebook data sharing deal

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Post by romanovcode »

sroecker wrote: post #4
watwatwatwat wrote: post #2

Good! Time to move to telegram! And delete your facebook account! And uninstall whatsapp! I expect nothing less from HN.

Please do not use Telegram. It' closed source and uses some half-baked crypto. Signal is open source and is actually end-to-end encrypted.

Exactly. Not to mention if it becomes popular it will get sold to megacorp in a heartbeat.

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Post by watwatwatwat »

sroecker wrote: post #4
watwatwatwat wrote: post #2

Good! Time to move to telegram! And delete your facebook account! And uninstall whatsapp! I expect nothing less from HN.

Please do not use Telegram. It' closed source and uses some half-baked crypto. Signal is open source and is actually end-to-end encrypted.

I'll give signal another try, last time I couldn't register.

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Post by unicornporn »

watwatwatwat wrote: post #2

Good! Time to move to telegram! And delete your facebook account! And uninstall whatsapp! I expect nothing less from HN.

If you've used Telegram for a while you will notice that in practice no one uses secret chats because these chats don't sync between devices. Your "non-secret" chats are readable by Pavel and anyone he wishes to share them with. I guess it's fine if you trust Pavel's good intentions. I don't[1].

[1] https://www.instagram.com/p/-MrPWGr7aL/

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Post by unicornporn »

sroecker wrote: post #4
watwatwatwat wrote: post #2

Good! Time to move to telegram! And delete your facebook account! And uninstall whatsapp! I expect nothing less from HN.

Please do not use Telegram. It' closed source and uses some half-baked crypto. Signal is open source and is actually end-to-end encrypted.

Wire[1] is also an excellent option. Unlike Open Whisper Systems they wont hang you from a tree for building a third party app. Signal wont work without Gapps or Google Play Services on your Android phone and Google Chrome for desktop.

[1] https://wire.com/

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