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Yup, Signal is the industry standard into getting actual privacy. But one player that deserves a shoutout when it comes to privacy, is Whatsapp. Even after becoming a Facebook company, it has kept E2EE, for messagings, group chats, and calls. And they do so by using the library that the greak folks from Signal put out.

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> Even after becoming a Facebook company, it has kept E2EE, for messagings, group chats, and calls.

According to their own claims, right? There's no way for anyone to verify that they're actually E2EE, just Meta's word that it is so.

The use the Signal library. A security researcher could analyze the binary, and check that it always calls the signal library correctly. Prove that they don't, and congratulations, you will become a very famous security researcher.

Except Signal's founder probably has/had a connection with the NSA. All security is for making it hard for the common attacker, and hostile countries. The NSA, most likely, has social engineered its way into every stack and every important org.

What? Where did you get that from?

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