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by smilesnd 3393 days ago
Old saying don't believe everything you hear, and only believe half what you read. Most news and blog outlets are horrible for information. Either they redigest someone else information, spin it to be more interesting, or just jump on the hype train. Their are few blogs and news outlets that actually have experts worth listening to. When the news/blog outlets heard whatsapp had a technique flaw by a security expert they jump on it like a fresh piece of meat. Whatsapp didn't have any security flaws or implementation flaws, but that didn't matter. The news/blogs didn't even understand it they were just jacked for some revenue from ads for this fresh piece of meat. It did so much harm to the people that use it for security reasons and to the company. But that didn't matter it is all about getting you to download a piece of javascript to tell some company you may have notice there ad that was place on someones website. News is dead. Bloggers only care about traffic. Experts are either paid to be used and abused or don't have a big enough audience to be heard.