WhatsApp Would Not Remove End-To-End Encryption For UK Law, Says Chief – wrote Slashdot

Of course they would not remove it, they don’t need it!

Governments have their own Meta-provided comfortable backdoor to WhatsApp.

How can I be sure? I’m not, but being WhatsApp proprietary software it is pratically impossible to ensure there are no back doors. So as we can’t be sure there are no backdoor we must held for true that there are backdoor, until proof and behave accordingly.

The proper way should be not to use WhatsApp but far too many people use it. A more feasible approach should be to use it to suggest people to leave it, using more secure alternatives (in descending order of privacy Briar, Signal, Sessio, Telegram and others. I posted a comparison here, I think it’s time to refresh it)

For my personal serie “yet another reason to avoid x”, today we have Roomba:

Intimate Photos By Roomba Vacuums Leaked Online

Your robot vacuums are watching you and the resulting imagery of your most private moments can, horrifically, get leaked online… iRobot … confirmed that gig workers shared intimate photos… to social media.

Source: Slashdot.org

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Leggete con attenzione Whatsapp: attenzione al ban, soprattutto nelle chat di gruppo.

È arrivato il momento di parlare più chiaramente usando termini comprensibili a chi tecnico non è.

In prima battuta stavo per sbottare con un “Facebook legge tutto quello che scrivi in WhatsApp”, ma non ho prove per suffragare una tale affermazione.

Per implementare un tale tipo di censura tutta devono necessariamente leggere le informazioni sui gruppi, sui contatti, sulle icone di gruppi e persone. Quindi ci sarà la mantomatica crittazione “da un capo all’altro” ma tutto il resto lo spiano, eccome se lo fanno! Percui

Facebook vi spia sempre quando usate WhatsApp!