Re:Zoom Acquires Keybase
by f38zf5vdt on Thursday May 07, 2020 @10:14AM
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Whatsapp announced encryption to the world in 2012. OWS helped secure their app further after the 2014 acquisition by FB, but encryption was something stressed by Koum and Acton from the get-go. Integration of E2EE into Whatsapp/FB Messaging is one of the few examples of Zuck being on the right side of things.
Long term it ended up pretty good, with Koum and Acton taking their acquisition money bags and pouring them into FOSS projects like FreeBSD and the Signal Foundation. Maybe malgorithms will do the same.
> pushes for backups to Google (and maybe iCloud?) servers.
Yeah, I was incorrect. They backup to Google servers. Not sure if that's better or worse. :)
Since then, FB has offered willingness to cooperate with foreign governments to break encryption. I guess we will see what happens with the EARN IT Act.
Long term it ended up pretty good, with Koum and Acton taking their acquisition money bags and pouring them into FOSS projects like FreeBSD and the Signal Foundation. Maybe malgorithms will do the same.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_WhatsApp
> pushes for backups to Google (and maybe iCloud?) servers.
Yeah, I was incorrect. They backup to Google servers. Not sure if that's better or worse. :)
Since then, FB has offered willingness to cooperate with foreign governments to break encryption. I guess we will see what happens with the EARN IT Act.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-09-28/facebook-...
RHL might be a bad example too, since Fedora is still pretty prominent, even if not often used compared to debian or debian-based distros these days.