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WhatsApp messaging app banned on all US House of Representatives devices (www.theguardian.com)
submitted 3 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Memo says cybersecurity office deemed WhatsApp a high risk due to ‘lack of transparency in how it protects user data’

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[–] [email protected] 35 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

We all know they use Signal, anyway.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

Good

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Somebody must have an exploit for the platform. Guessing it's Israel because of the messaging from a few weeks ago by various countries' security concerns.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Got a link handy?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

...I'm sure you know how search engines work

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Well I tried searching for "secret exploit nobody knows about", but it didn't come up with any results.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

Somebody must have an exploit for the platform.

Or it could be exactly what they said it was. Seems like a good enough reason...

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

I gotta ask, what's the situation with the senate? It would seem like a colossal lack of communication if the house bans it but the senate doesn't. Or if the senate already banned it, why the house didn't then? Shouldn't they be relatively on the same page?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago

I am not allowed to use WhatsApp on my company phone, so it's hard to believe that the US government has apparently been fine with it up until now.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

And yet so many people still refusing to switch to Signal, even tho Whatsapp is officially declared unsave by the government.