WhatsApp is encrypted end-to-end.
Mainly because they took Signal code and reused it.
Yet everyone uses WhatsApp, even though the secret ingredient they added to the Signal 'sauce' is maintaining the social graph of their users for their corporate masters (Meta).
The very meta data that Signal very carefully does not collect and therefore cannot communicate to abusive gov.
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2025-10-09 17:17:10 UTC
in reply to nevent1qâĶe5gf
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