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Ex-WhatsApp cybersecurity head says Meta endangered billions of users

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Re: Ex-WhatsApp cybersecurity head says Meta endangered billions of users

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Facebook doesn't give me a straight answer, when I ask them questions about their policies, even when my questions aren't answered by their policies. The job of the privacy team within Facebook is not privacy: it's reducing liability.

Re: Ex-WhatsApp cybersecurity head says Meta endangered billions of users

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What a trash company Meta has consistently been.

From enabling genocide in Myanmar, to interfering with elections, to giving user data to third parties in violation of its own daya policies, to straight up weird stuff like pirating/torrening books to train their steaming pile of garbage called llama, to having sex chatbots be weird to children.

And then there is the even weirder decisions of zuck, the biggest loser of all:

- VR didnt seem to catch on

- the metaverse is a giant smelly pile of poo and he sunk millions in it

- he is hiring AI engineers at absurd money in a rapidly cooling bubble market

- he immediately started ass kissing the orange stain that calls himself president

Is he purposefully trying to be a caricature cartoon vilain, a grotesque loser, and his company an emblem of evil? Or is it just cluelessness?

Re: Ex-WhatsApp cybersecurity head says Meta endangered billions of users

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Facebook doesn't give me a straight answer, when I ask them questions about their policies, even when my questions aren't answered by their policies. The job of the privacy team within Facebook is not privacy: it's reducing liability.

You obviously do not or have never worked there.

Re: Ex-WhatsApp cybersecurity head says Meta endangered billions of users

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Without open source, end to end encryption is useless. It's not hard to hide a piece of code that defeats the encryption in closed source code.

iMessage is end to end encrypted. Although Apple says it secure and the courts and FBI seem to not be able to get it in, it is still closed source.

Just don't back it up to iCloud!

Re: Ex-WhatsApp cybersecurity head says Meta endangered billions of users

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Facebook doesn't give me a straight answer, when I ask them questions about their policies, even when my questions aren't answered by their policies. The job of the privacy team within Facebook is not privacy: it's reducing liability.

You obviously do not or have never worked there.

You obviously do not or have never paid attention to news about Meta's many and repeated moral, ethical, and legal violations.

That, or you have a vested interested in making sure that your stake in Meta does not depreciate in value.

Re: Ex-WhatsApp cybersecurity head says Meta endangered billions of users

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Without open source, end to end encryption is useless. It's not hard to hide a piece of code that defeats the encryption in closed source code.

iMessage is end to end encrypted. Although Apple says it secure and the courts and FBI seem to not be able to get it in, it is still closed source.

Not able to get into it legally or without consequence, it is not infallible.
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