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If it undermines people's trust in Facebook's privacy, I'm for it. We need general adoption of strong open source secure messaging, and Facebook/WhatsApp stands in the way of this by being "good enough".

If anything, this sort of announcement might just as well be a false flag tactic: look how secure Facebook is, 5-eyes is pleading for them to be less secure.

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Any law that applies to WhatsApp will apply to Signal too. There will never be mass adoption of secure messaging if it's illegal.

> If it undermines people's trust in Facebook's privacy, I'm for it.

First they came for Facebook; everybody liked that.

It's to catch the terrorists. You wouldn't say no to that, right?

I have nothing to hide, said the commoner.

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