Re:WhatsApp backdoor allows snooping on encrypted messages
by kordless on Friday January 13, 2017 @12:27PM
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There is no logical way to verify that all activists (or even a majority of them) use Signal over WhatsApp. The perception that activists use Signal may have been enough to block them, but having a huge backdoor in WhatsApp is reason enough to not take action.
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Re:WhatsApp backdoor allows snooping on encrypted messages
by WillPostForFood on Friday January 13, 2017 @02:38PM
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That's assuming it was a macro decision, and not a micro decision. The govt could have had specific intel on a particular activist, or cell that they knew were using Signal, and shut it down to deal with that situation at that time.
Re:WhatsApp backdoor allows snooping on encrypted messages
by ycmbntrthrwaway on Friday January 13, 2017 @04:42PM
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Signal actively promotes as activist messenger by using names of revolutionaries and anarchists (Makhno, Proudhon, Masha Kolenkina) all over their website. Just for example: https://whispersystems.org/blog/images/signal-faces.png
