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Mark Zuckerberg: WhatsApp Is 'Far More Private and Secure' Than iMessage
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He’s not wrong . iMessage still relies on sms whereas WhatsApp is end to end encrypted
He reads every message to make sure too
iMessage has the maximum number of fake, bot accounts spreading hate and misinformation, and there is also stealing of user data; wait that's Facebook.
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As soon as we were betrayed by the original owners and Facebook took ownership I deleted my account and moved on to telegram. 
He's right - with iMessage dropping you into SMS for most of your contacts, it's more secure to go to an app that can end-to-end encrypt.
Question is, convincing all your friends and family to use WhatsApp? Not happening in the States. We all are used to our default texting apps.
Question is, convincing all your friends and family to use WhatsApp? Not happening in the States. We all are used to our default texting apps.
I kind of wonder if this guy actually believes what he says or he’s just lost it. He said some crazy things.
Was just about to say something similar.
If by “encrypted” he means “only legible by the sender, receiver, and META”, then maybe.
Zuckerberg is an alien working for the CIA. True story 👍
And so Zuck’s Distraction Campaign continues, trying to change the narrative away from his toxic products, spyware, and the stillborn birth of his metaverse.
nobody Is buying it.
nobody Is buying it.
WhatsApp is built on top of the open source Signal messaging platform, which is well respected in the security community. This makes it at least a contender, and for cross-platform messaging (check the Android global market share) you could argue it's more secure than falling back on SMS.
I've never been advertised to based on an imessage I sent. Can't say the same for whatsapp. Glad I deleted that scam, don't understand why it's so popular.
It became popular before Zuckerberg bought it out. It started out as something potentially good, but Zucky corrupted it.
Mark is right. iCloud backups do not have end-to-end encrypted messages. It’s pitiful that Apple allows this. Zuck is right for once.
Blind fanboys who consider everything coming from X as false or offensive somehow without a basic understanding of the messaging system they defend… iMessage is the same money grab as WA, just less secure and less interoperable and with securirty broken between platforms.
You really think IOS is ultra private?. What a joke. Check all the trackers that Safari allows, etc. have you seen the VPN data leak issue from IOS? And that IOS stock apps send data to mothership openly skipping the VPN?.
You will say “compared to Google it is much better…”, is that an argument?. Is like a robber saying he is less bad than a killer and therefore should not be judged so sternly. Both are bad!.
You really think IOS is ultra private?. What a joke. Check all the trackers that Safari allows, etc. have you seen the VPN data leak issue from IOS? And that IOS stock apps send data to mothership openly skipping the VPN?.
You will say “compared to Google it is much better…”, is that an argument?. Is like a robber saying he is less bad than a killer and therefore should not be judged so sternly. Both are bad!.
He’s probably right that the actual message being sent to the other party is end to end encrypted, but that doesn’t mean keywords aren’t scanned and sent to Facebook for ad purposes. I would suspect those are two different transmissions.
Tell him to type i am hungry , and then open any site, and it will show food ads
Apple should introduce Apple Messages for iPhone and Android and Tim Cook should finally act fully for privacy by introducing end to end encryption for all user data.
it’s not about being a fanboy. If someone with a reputation for being a bad person tells me something, I’m not going to believe it by default. Perhaps your dislike for Apple exceeds your dislike for Facebook but that’s your issue, not mine. I don’t think anyone here besides a few people like yourself will actually take anything Zuck says as anything other than misinformation