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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.”
Why would you recommend Telegram, which has poor defaults and a shoddy crypto system. Also, WeChat has no e2ee and it’s around as secure as Discord in that aspect.
“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.