End-To-End encryption is useless if like in the case of WhatsApp you don't control the client, but a company beholden to US secret courts does. "“For the past decade, N.S.A. has led an aggressive, multipronged effort to break widely used Internet encryption technologies,” said a 2010 memo describing a briefing about N.S.A. accomplishments" [1]
> The US has laws and rules around access
I'm not a US citizen and reside outside the US, which from my limited legal understanding means that the US law doesn't give a crap about me
I agree that in recent decades China has a worse human rights record, which is a major factor when you "choose your poison".
All reasonable points, though I think whatsapp is secure - I think for most people the best choice is Signal for general messaging and assuming everything else is largely public.
Even in Signal people can and do take screenshots, so really probably just best to be cautious of anything in writing that you wouldn't want published.
This is one reason I'm excited about Urbit - I think it'll be cool to get out of the dependence on centralized services.
End-To-End encryption is useless if like in the case of WhatsApp you don't control the client, but a company beholden to US secret courts does. "“For the past decade, N.S.A. has led an aggressive, multipronged effort to break widely used Internet encryption technologies,” said a 2010 memo describing a briefing about N.S.A. accomplishments" [1]
> The US has laws and rules around access
I'm not a US citizen and reside outside the US, which from my limited legal understanding means that the US law doesn't give a crap about me
I agree that in recent decades China has a worse human rights record, which is a major factor when you "choose your poison".
1: https://www.propublica.org/article/the-nsas-secret-campaign-...