On Thu, 18 Mar 2021 17:25:48 +0100 to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Thu, Mar 18, 2021 at 10:07:08AM -0400, Celejar wrote: > > [...] > > > I definitely share your concerns about Facebook (although perhaps not > > quite your vehemence), > > :-) > > > but making blatantly incorrect assertions like > > the claim that Facebook is one of the ends of WhatsApp's E2E encryption > > does not help our cause. > > I don't know. I just don't trust them. Much less after their change in > terms of service. I tried to explain this in another mail: possibly,
I certainly don't trust them, either. > under the right conditions, E2E is a thing in WhatsApp. Possibly, > making those "right conditions" happen is less-than-trivial for the > user. > > > I suppose you're a follower of Sen. Goldwater: "Extremism in defense of > > liberty is no vice. Moderation in pursuit of justice is no virtue.” > > (veering dangerously off-topic, so this is my last word on > this specific thing) > > That depends on how you define extremism, I guess. I'm not for > throwing stones at a human being (nor in general for causing > harm). But choosing which corporation I trust... doesn't quite > feel "extremist" to me ;-) Well said. > > https://www.niskanencenter.org/on-the-saying-that-extremism-in-defense-of-liberty-is-no-vice/ > > > > (Teasing: I'm pretty sure your politics are diametrically opposed to > > his.) > > Possibly. I've been doing too much framework javascript today. I > dont feel like adding pain to that, so I'll skip the link :-D I don't know what framework javascript is, but whatever it is, you have my sympathy ;) Celejar
