Comment on Lawsuit Alleges That WhatsApp Has No End-to-End Encryption
purplemonkeymad@programming.dev 1 week agoAround a year ago WhatsApp had large ads that just said “no one else can read your messages.” I don’t think most people thought that some one could, which makes me wonder why they were paying so much to say it.
Because after N scandals, they needed to make sure people would trust them. Meta had never considered itself bound to any promise or commitment they ever made to anyone (users, ads customers, etc.). But you want a monopole, you need to make sure people see no issue with using your services.
And they’re doing it again with Threads. And it works AGAIN, because they promised not to do anything evil. Pending the next inevitable scandal with users flabbergasted that Meta could have done it AGAIN.
Is anyone actually still using threads? I thought all the Twitter refugees ended up on Bluesky.
If I trust the numbers I found, Threads has 200M users, vs 2.5–3M for all of Mastodon’s instances but-Threads.
Down the same road, again.
foo@feddit.uk 1 week ago
Any time they get asked questions like “Are my messages visible only to me?”, they answer with a very canned response like “Your messages are encrypted from end-to-end and can’t be read by anyone while in transit” … or words to that effect. I have never seen them state that no analytics or telemetry is happening on the unencrypted side by the client. Which has always bothered me.