Government: Zuck put a backdoor in WhatsApp or we will put you in a blacksite UFC ring and beat you up. Also Government: WhatsApp has a backdoor. Don't use it.
Also Government: uses Israel-backdoored custom Signal
WhatsApp banned on House staffers' devices
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#32Government: Zuck put a backdoor in WhatsApp or we will put you in a blacksite UFC ring and beat you up. Also Government: WhatsApp has a backdoor. Don't use it.
Also Government: uses Israel-backdoored custom Signal
Yeah but Israel is Israel, so there's no actual problem there. Now, if it was Iran...
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#33Government: Zuck put a backdoor in WhatsApp or we will put you in a blacksite UFC ring and beat you up. Also Government: WhatsApp has a backdoor. Don't use it.
>Government: Zuck put a backdoor in WhatsApp or we will put you in a blacksite UFC ring and beat you up. Source? >Also Government: WhatsApp has a backdoor. Don't use it. If "zuck" is really in the pocket of the US government, why should they worry about their own backdoors?
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#35Government: Zuck put a backdoor in WhatsApp or we will put you in a blacksite UFC ring and beat you up. Also Government: WhatsApp has a backdoor. Don't use it.
The Government is made up of a huge number of organizations with competing goals, budgets, capabilities, and interests.
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#36Government: Zuck put a backdoor in WhatsApp or we will put you in a blacksite UFC ring and beat you up. Also Government: WhatsApp has a backdoor. Don't use it.
>Government: Zuck put a backdoor in WhatsApp or we will put you in a blacksite UFC ring and beat you up. Source? >Also Government: WhatsApp has a backdoor. Don't use it. If "zuck" is really in the pocket of the US government, why should they worry about their own backdoors?
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#37Earlier quoted context omitted.
>Government: Zuck put a backdoor in WhatsApp or we will put you in a blacksite UFC ring and beat you up. Source? >Also Government: WhatsApp has a backdoor. Don't use it. If "zuck" is really in the pocket of the US government, why should they worry about their own backdoors?
Why would there be a source for a backdoor of a closed source application?
Usually when you make important claims it's expected you back them up with some sort of evidence.
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#38Earlier quoted context omitted.
That wasn't signal's fault. They accidentally invited a journalist to the chat.
I agree in principle but this was (probably) a result of somebody fat-fingering the wrong contact and I do think there's some culpability on either the app or the phone for making that possible to do by mistake. Touch screens are an inherently clumsy interface, and Android in general has a lot of problems with UI elements suddenly moving around without warning as you're clicking on things. And then there's auto corre…
I don’t think there’s any culpability or responsibility for the app, it doesn’t really bill itself as a good platform to do the high-level planning of military strikes.
If there are UI issues, they should be fixed because they are also annoying when planning somebody a surprise birthday party. (Or all the other stuff an encrypted chat app might be good for).
On the other hand, PGP just calling itself “pretty good” was pretty funny. Maybe that’s the level of active humbleness that everybody should aim for.
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#39Earlier quoted context omitted.
>Government: Zuck put a backdoor in WhatsApp or we will put you in a blacksite UFC ring and beat you up. Source? >Also Government: WhatsApp has a backdoor. Don't use it. If "zuck" is really in the pocket of the US government, why should they worry about their own backdoors?
> Source? https://www.facebook.com/security/advisories/cve-2019-3568
Software frequently has bugs and sometimes they have security implications. In order to claim that a specific bug is a backdoor you need to have evidence beyond the existence of a bug.