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Information operations directed at Hong Kong

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1116 points whatok | 3 comments | 19 Aug 19 18:11 UTC | HN request time: 0.433s | source
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Bhilai ◴[19 Aug 19 18:54 UTC] No.20740623[source]▶
I am curious to know how do companies like Facebook control this kind of activity on WhatsApp where there is end-end encryption. I see a lot of propaganda on Whats App being circulated everyday and people keep forwarding such messages into various groups.
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1. nobodyshere ◴[19 Aug 19 18:56 UTC] No.20740649[source]▶
Can you seriously trust WhatsApp's security now that it belongs to Facebook?
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2. mullen ◴[19 Aug 19 18:59 UTC] No.20740681[source]▶
A lot more than I trust China.
3. checktheorder ◴[19 Aug 19 19:58 UTC] No.20741234[source]▶
In fairness to Facebook (which is a phrase I never thought I'd type) Whatsapp's Signal-derived end-to-end encryption was implemented almost a year after Facebook bought it.

Of course, there's still the flaw of backups to Google Drive being unencrypted. But fortunately that's not the default setting.