President Maduro of Venezuela denounces

WhatsApp as a spying system

Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro has accused

WhatsApp of operating as a spying tool and urged citizens to switch to alternative messaging apps such as Telegram and WeChat.

Speaking at a meeting in Miraflores Presidential Palace in Caracas, the president asserted, "WhatsApp provided its list of Venezuelan users to Colombian drug traffickers, who then conducted months of espionage."

  • lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.org
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    3 months ago

    He had me in the first half, not gonna lie.

    But recommending Telegram? Lol. Lmao even. And Wechat? Arent't you supposed to be within the China Firewall to use that?

      • Kultronx@lemmygrad.ml
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        3 months ago

        imma guess and say the devs are russian dissidents and encrypted chat is not enabled by default. wechat is good but china may b spying on you but i don't care

          • commiespammer@lemmygrad.ml
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            3 months ago

            Honestly China gains nothing from spying on randos halfway across the world, don't get why westoids are so fond of fearmongering about China spying on them with software and then ???

            • CriticalResist8@lemmygrad.mlM
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              3 months ago

              They'll get the secret recipe to my rice crispies squares and will one up me at Veronica's next potluck and I can't have that happen to me it's the only thing I got left

              • commiespammer@lemmygrad.ml
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                3 months ago

                one idiot from my school I talked to said if you said something bad about China they'd arrest you the moment you went there.

                • DankZedong @lemmygrad.ml
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                  3 months ago

                  As if China has a government agency in which the workers are just scanning billions upon billions of messages just to pick check if one of the millions of annual tourists says something bad about China

            • sinovictorchan@lemmygrad.ml
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              3 months ago

              China is currently the only superpower that lack descend from white Europeans and who managed to create its own independent economy that are immune to sanctions and monopoly from Western European diaspora. There is also the fear of hard working innovative scary red masterminds who the invisible hand is recruiting into key management positions of Pax Americana that made Pax Americana strengthen their oppressive command economy against free market. The Capitalists had been using heavy government intervention to kill peaceful protestors who demand meritocracy and accountability, but the favorism by the invisible hand to the scary red boogymen made the Capitalists enforce brutal government intervention more openly.

          • nephs@lemmygrad.ml
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            3 months ago

            If you're reading this, please hire me, Chinese government!

            For all the CIA agents out there, this is a joke!