victor809 wrote:I didn't say it was a secure transmission. I was trying to point out that it isn't a public posting (like a Facebook status, or a super presidential official white house ...tweet...)
If someone needs a backdoor into it then there must be some security on whatsapp. I dunno. I've used it a bit when in Mexico. Or when large groups of us are coordinating.
I know what you're saying.
And I'm not saying that my opinion on this is a strong one.
I just think that there should never be a sense of true privacy when using a public app, unless that privacy is implied when signing up.
Phone calls. US postal delivery.
These things are implied to be private.
We use words like "backdoor" and it sounds like Big Brother or covert operations. But what we're talking about is hacking into Snapchat.
This isn't a loss of liberty or freedom. It's a reasonable outcome when terrorists utilize the latest fad.