Funny how it wasn't until after they were acquired by that company that they began the project to adopt the protocol that would make reading their messages cryptographically hard.
It's almost as if you can't start from some tiny set of first principles about the world and use it to reason through any problem in a message board comment.
> Funny how it wasn't until after they were acquired by that company that they began the project to adopt the protocol that would make reading their messages cryptographically hard.
WhatsApp doesn't just support¹ Signal's end-to-end encryption, it enables it by default for everyone with no option to turn it off. It successfully prevented my government² from decrypting user messages even with court orders.
It's a major improvement over whatever bolted-on security email has.
Really? Come on!
WhatsApp is owned by a company whose business is done by retrieving all the information it can from users and by tracking their behaviors.