KSRandom195 t1_itgmjid wrote on October 23, 2022 at 2:37 PM

Reply to comment by marco_flores in Yes, Zuckerbergberg is right. WhatsApp is more secure than Apple’s iMessage by juptertk

End-to-end the encryption means the carrier cannot read your content. Don’t know how you get more private than that.

Pleroo t1_itgnnkr wrote on October 23, 2022 at 2:45 PM

To make it truly private the recipient must not be able to read the message either.

KSRandom195 t1_itgnyw0 wrote on October 23, 2022 at 2:48 PM

Oh, that’s true. Forgot that option.

nhepner t1_itk7scx wrote on October 24, 2022 at 6:57 AM

From what I understand...

and I'm not citing this, so keep your skeptical spectacles on...

They don't read the content of the message, but they take the metadata of it and cross reference it against their other platforms. This means they know who you're talking to (phone numbers) and build contact networks this way. if they can get a positive ID to Facebook or Instagram accounts, they can attach lots of other wizardry to it. They know who is talking, how frequently, and at what times.

Signal and telegram don't have those sorts of associations.

mrredrobot19 t1_itkk3zx wrote on October 24, 2022 at 9:59 AM

Encryption doesn’t matter when the message is screened before encryption is applied. Anyone remember facebook’s patents?