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Are you implying that Wickr is a sting operation also?

Anything you can point me to read about that?

It is set up like an obvious honey pot just like Anom was set up like an obvious honey pot and should be avoided purely for those reasons alone, just like Anom should have been avoided purely for those reasons alone

There is no way to know whether either of those services were compromised simply due to their express purpose of forwarding everything to government agent’s computers

They’re just simply not capable of providing users any of the assurances they claim in a way the user can ever have the assurance of

Thanks. As-in there is no way to evaluate whether Wickr's claims of encryption are true?

No way to evaluate whether your messages are readable by law enforcement at any given point in time, with a greater red flag being the advertising claims of Wickr misleading users to the contrary. Wickr, a US based company.

There may be some level of encryption, it acts like a company set up by the government or made to be tapped into.

This wasnt conspiracy theory fiction even before Anom, as there are other examples of governments especially the US government doing this already. Just let Anom be another more clear cut reminder that it doesn't matter who you trust that uses a software, if it doesn't pass some key criteria then don’t use it. There is no “I’m sure this large group of people thought of that” just assume they are stupid, negligent, thought the same as you did and nobody attempted any scrutiny, or are all informants themselves.

That's why drug cartels in Mexico are setting up their own cellular networks. If you control infrastructure, it's harder to get wiretapped.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-mexico-telecoms-cartels-s...

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