Meta is a security threat outside of Russia too. No privacy should be expected when using their services
Yes, so like 12 years ago I was thinking - maybe they won’t do such bad things, maybe it’s a purely hypothetical possibility, surely someone will catch them outright spying.
Yet suppose that back then Zuck rolled out an update with hidden functionality to spy at some underage girl, and then rolled it back. Who would check every FB application update? And if the hidden functionality looked enough like a bug (matching only a handful of device IDs of millions), then who’d become suspicious? There have been many updates with many bugs.
And Zuck surely behaves as if such thing happened many times.
I just hope more people in Russia will switch to Briar, it IMHO seems to have all the necessary Telegram-like functionality other than channels, votes, video uploading … But that’s probably intended, too much data to synchronize. Text and pics are a lot.
when using their services
Have I got some bad news for you…
Meta is an arm of Russia propaganda machine
Meta is playing all sides, and would personally kill children of any country for a fiver
Can we have the same in the EU too, please?
If Ruzzian leaders say whatever arbitrary thing is a threat, what they mean is its a threat to the status quo and the elites and they want the people to nip it in the bud for them
On the one hand, i support independence from the US.
On the other hand, the messenger i’m using better be hosted in another country, so it’s less likely that local law enforcement can spy on my communications.
it’s less likely that local law enforcement can spy on my communications.
Most developed nations at this point have some sort of data-sharing treaty. So some other country not subject to local laws spies on you, then just shares that information with your local country, and vise-versa, and voila everyone on the planet has just skirted any and all consumer privacy protections.
Weird, I agree with Russia on something. I’m sure I won’t agree on their suggested replacement though.
Signal and/or Simplex FTW.
A little background info:
Russia’s been sponsoring one of its oligarchs’ business by eliminating their competition.
First, they restricted YouTube’s speed to an unusable state to force people to switch to RuTube (they didn’t)
Now they’re trying to force people to switch from WhatsApp (and potentially Telegram) to MAX, which they want to be Russia’s version of WeChat.
Add the fact that our politicians are obsessed with controlling all of the media and you’ll get the gist of it.
