cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/5331985

President Maduro of Venezuela denounces

WhatsApp as a spying system

Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro has accused

WhatsApp of operating as a spying tool and urged citizens to switch to alternative messaging apps such as Telegram and WeChat.

Speaking at a meeting in Miraflores Presidential Palace in Caracas, the president asserted, “WhatsApp provided its list of Venezuelan users to Colombian drug traffickers, who then conducted months of espionage.”

  • DyskolosEnglish
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    1 month ago

    “poor defaults” = comfort for the everyday jane and joe. Noone concerned about privacy would not check setting first and adapt them. Encryption isn’t cool to regular folks. They don’t care. And it kills comfort and would drive them away.

    Also nobody forces you to use the cryptos. It’s a cool innovative use of the even more cool mini-app-system. Use or don’t. I personally love the tgram-api and use it extensively.