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Re:Belgium Arrests Two in Probe Over Returning Syria Fighter by simonvc on Tuesday June 09, 2015 @09:47AM (#9685835)
Even if you do you use an app that always uses crypto end to end (e.g. signal/textsecure)

https://whispersystems.org/blog/signal/

There's no guarantee that apple/google/microsoft haven't been ordered to install a backdoored version.

tl;dr RMS was right

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Re:Belgium Arrests Two in Probe Over Returning Syria Fighter by dogma1138 on Tuesday June 09, 2015 @10:06AM (#9685963)
It's by far easier to force MSFT, Google or Apple to backdoor the device rather than an individual app. Especially since at least on Android devices you can always pull the APK you got form the store apart and see if it's being messed with.
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