• iamak@infosec.pub
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    11 months ago

    I hope that the DMA gets passed in the EU. It'll (hopefully) break the monopoly worldwide

    • miss_brainfart@lemmy.ml
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      11 months ago

      Interoperability is a weird one though. Imagine WhatsApp can connect to Signal, and people use this feature. What would then be the point of using Signal, if WhatsApp gets the data after all?

      (Signal has already announced not wanting to support this, I just used it as an example)

      • Twink
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        10 months ago

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        • miss_brainfart@lemmy.ml
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          10 months ago

          So what needs do you have outside of a different look? Privacy doesn't seem to be one of them, and the two apps are very similar otherwise.

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            10 months ago

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                10 months ago

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      • iamak@infosec.pub
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        10 months ago

        True. However there are certain advantages

        • WhatsApp gets only a part of your data (coz many people might be on different apps)
        • You don't have to run WhatsApp on your device so they can't collect that data either

        I know it's not perfect but better than the current scenario and a step in the right direction

        • miss_brainfart@lemmy.ml
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          10 months ago

          Since WhatsApp is proprietary, we don't know if the users are the only ones who can decrypt their messages. I'll always have to assume Meta can read everything, which is the most sensible data they could possibly collect.

          So that alone should be reason enough to avoid it.

          • iamak@infosec.pub
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            10 months ago

            Yes. I don't endorse WhatsApp. What I meant is if you chat with 15 people out of which 5 use WhatsApp, only those 5 chats are potentially readable by Meta. Because those are the only chats which will get sent to Meta servers.

            So you have the benefit that the other 10 chats are not readable by Meta.

            • miss_brainfart@lemmy.ml
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              10 months ago

              Yeah, true. And concerning your name and phone number, they probably already have that too, one way or another.

              • iamak@infosec.pub
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                10 months ago

                At this point I just assume Meta, Google and Apple have my number due to people storing the number on their devices. Amazon also might have it because people might have paid me via Amazon Pay (and given it access to contacts).

      • smileyhead@discuss.tchncs.de
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        10 months ago

        The point is that anyone could switch at any time and we wouldn't have to make switch all at once.

        There would be real competition.