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Given the recent detainment of a French person who got detained because he said something bad about the current administration in his WhatsApp messages. It makes me wonder if WhatsApp is truly end to end encrypted as they claimed. How did they even single him out?

As a corollary question, if I were to pass Customs, and if I delete WhatsApp , Reddit etc just before I reach the counter, will they be able to find out that I just deleted the apps minutes ago? I’ll be deleting them from my phone but keep them on the cloud.

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[–] ocean@lemmy.selfhostcat.com 14 points 1 week ago (3 children)

The mods response is odd but also the comments are real. Who is dumb enough to think WhatsApp is safe?

Your post has been removed for being too specific to a company or single product. These days, reddit is heavily astroturfed with fake posts asking questions about companies and services by shills of those same companies and services as a form of fake organic advertising, and by competitors trying to create FUD to benefit their own product or service. This often takes the form or character assassination, libel, and conspiracy theories.

We don’t allow it, and in order to keep it from happening, we remove posts that are too close to astroturfing, corporate comparisons, personal Nd political opinions, ranting diatribes, etc.

If your question was legitimate (asking for pros and cons, potential issues, comparisons, etc), feel free to use subreddits more appropriate such as one for the company or service mentioned, or see privacyguides.org for community comparisons and recommendations to privacy focused open source software.

[–] LWD@lemm.ee 30 points 1 week ago (1 children)

r/privacy moderators also censored this post with the same reason:

IRS nears deal with ICE to share addresses of SUSpected undocumented immigrants

Really makes you think.

[–] ocean@lemmy.selfhostcat.com 6 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Okay that’s absolutely insane. Glad I switched to here even though it’s quieter

[–] misteloct@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Fewer people but 1000x the engagement. I switched last month and I already have more upvotes than my 15yo Reddit account. Also folks are way, way smarter here. I feel like I'm learning more than I contribute, opposite story on Reddit. Well welcome!

[–] ocean@lemmy.selfhostcat.com 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I thought that at first but now that I comment and post more I get a lot of mean comments here and there. Most users are just redditors so they’ve brought their old ways, sadly. I do hope we can collectively strive to not be redditors. I would prefer HN-like discussions

[–] misteloct@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] ocean@lemmy.selfhostcat.com 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] misteloct@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Thanks! From my days on Reddit I think it means "I love you".

[–] fxomt@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Glad to have you here, too. Its not as big as the reddit counterpart but I like this community.

[–] ocean@lemmy.selfhostcat.com 3 points 1 week ago

Kind of you to say. Must be glad to have you here because voyager tags you as being upvoted by me a lot! :D

[–] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 7 points 1 week ago

Well that's a way to look at it.

This def feels like censorship.

We saw Lemmy.world mods uses these clown tactics when CEo got deposed.

They just make up reasons for it it seems as they go.

[–] blicky_blank@lemmy.today 6 points 1 week ago

Redditors in tech subs... Got down voted to oblivion for trying to point out just because Whatsapp uses E2EE, that it doesn't mean meta can't extract the messages from the apps before and after transmission.