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Re:Facebook Makes Moves on Instagram Users by avip on Friday July 13, 2018 @03:23PM (#17525901)
e2e was delivered 2016, WhatsApp was acquired in 2014.
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Re:Facebook Makes Moves on Instagram Users by 394549 on Friday July 13, 2018 @03:53PM (#17526132)
> e2e was delivered 2016, WhatsApp was acquired in 2014.

Both WhatsApp founders have left Facebook recently, and they were much more privacy focused than Zuckerberg and Sandberg. My understanding is they protected the WhatsApp team from the culture of the rest of Facebook, but now that they're gone I don't see that continuing in the same way.

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Re:Facebook Makes Moves on Instagram Users by soziawa on Sunday July 15, 2018 @05:49AM (#17534549)
> and they were much more privacy focused than Zuckerberg and Sandberg.

And just remember, those were the two guys who thought that transport encryption was too expensive for a messaging app.

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