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From: Salvador Mirzo <smirzo@example.com>
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: Schneier, Data and Goliath: no hope for privacy
Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2025 23:22:53 -0300
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kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey) writes:

> Sn!pe <snipeco.1@gmail.com> wrote:
>>Salvador Mirzo <smirzo@example.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Can't Signal eventually be bought off?
>>
>>They claim that it's end-to-end encrypted but whatever, it has
>>Whatsapp's functionality without being Meta and that's good 
>>enough for me.
>
> Signal does the encryption within the app, much like PGP.  So if Signal were
> to compromise the app, it could be sniffed.

What about Whatsapp?  Isn't it like that too?