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Funny how it wasn't until after they were acquired by that company that they began the project to adopt the protocol that would make reading their messages cryptographically hard.

It's almost as if you can't start from some tiny set of first principles about the world and use it to reason through any problem in a message board comment.



> Funny how it wasn't until after they were acquired by that company that they began the project to adopt the protocol that would make reading their messages cryptographically hard.

Perhaps you don't remember this:

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/oct/28/whatsapp-...

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/nov/17/facebook-...

Can't parse your second sentence, sorry.


We never trusted Microsoft with their practice of Embrace-Extend-Extinguish. Why should we trust Facebook here?

If Facebook were collaborating with the NSA I see no reason they'd operate differently than we see from the outside now.




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