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by scblock 3397 days ago
It already happened with Whatsapp and the Guardian's irresponsible reporting. Organizers and protesters switching to unencrypted messaging or even SMS, because of the perception that Whatsapp was hacked. Someone savvy enough to use end to end encryption may be someone who values privacy, but there's not reason to assume they are also someone who is themselves a security expert. The point of apps like Whatsapp and Signal working to make end to end encryption easy for the average person is to increase encrypted messaging use, not make everyone a security expert.