alt Hacker NewsAnyone blindly believing every random allegation is also a fool, especially when the app in question has been thoroughly reverse engineered and you can freely check for yourself that it's using the same protocol as Signal for encryption
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That raises the question of why not just use Signal and avoid a company whose founder thinks we're all "dumbfucks" and has a long history of scandals and privacy violations?
The evidence is pretty clear that Facebook wants to do everything they legally can to track and monitor people, and they're perfectly okay crossing the line and going to court to find the boundaries.
Using a company like that for encrypted messaging seems like an unnecessary risk. Maybe they're not decrypting it, but they're undoubtedly tracking everything else about the conversation because that's what they do.
Allegations against a company who circumvented Android's security to track users?
I don't have any proof that Meta stores WhatsApp messages but I feel it in my bones that at the very least tried to do so. And if ever that comes to light, precisely nobody will be surprised.
https://cybersecuritynews.com/track-android-users-covertly/