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Given the recent detainment of a French person who got detained because he said something bad about the current administration in his WhatsApp messages. It makes me wonder if WhatsApp is truly end to end encrypted as they claimed. How did they even single him out?

As a corollary question, if I were to pass Customs, and if I delete WhatsApp , Reddit etc just before I reach the counter, will they be able to find out that I just deleted the apps minutes ago? I’ll be deleting them from my phone but keep them on the cloud.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 days ago (11 children)

The mods response is odd but also the comments are real. Who is dumb enough to think WhatsApp is safe?

Your post has been removed for being too specific to a company or single product. These days, reddit is heavily astroturfed with fake posts asking questions about companies and services by shills of those same companies and services as a form of fake organic advertising, and by competitors trying to create FUD to benefit their own product or service. This often takes the form or character assassination, libel, and conspiracy theories.

We don’t allow it, and in order to keep it from happening, we remove posts that are too close to astroturfing, corporate comparisons, personal Nd political opinions, ranting diatribes, etc.

If your question was legitimate (asking for pros and cons, potential issues, comparisons, etc), feel free to use subreddits more appropriate such as one for the company or service mentioned, or see privacyguides.org for community comparisons and recommendations to privacy focused open source software.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 3 days ago (1 children)

r/privacy moderators also censored this post with the same reason:

IRS nears deal with ICE to share addresses of SUSpected undocumented immigrants

Really makes you think.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Okay that’s absolutely insane. Glad I switched to here even though it’s quieter

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Fewer people but 1000x the engagement. I switched last month and I already have more upvotes than my 15yo Reddit account. Also folks are way, way smarter here. I feel like I'm learning more than I contribute, opposite story on Reddit. Well welcome!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I thought that at first but now that I comment and post more I get a lot of mean comments here and there. Most users are just redditors so they’ve brought their old ways, sadly. I do hope we can collectively strive to not be redditors. I would prefer HN-like discussions

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

Thanks! From my days on Reddit I think it means "I love you".

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Glad to have you here, too. Its not as big as the reddit counterpart but I like this community.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

Kind of you to say. Must be glad to have you here because voyager tags you as being upvoted by me a lot! :D

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