Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by phone8675309 1960 days ago
>If it's a large company like Facebook that values these products like Whatsapp at billions I trust them at least on this issue. I'm pretty sure they're not going to put junk third party malware for 50k into the Whatsapp client.

Zuck: They "trust me"

Zuck: Dumb fucks.

1 comments

That's a one dimensional way to think.

You may not be able to trust facebook with your privacy, but you can trust them not to install a malware that swipes your bitcoins.

That being said, I despise the current state of affairs with cellphones. I don't like needing to trust any corp. I'm jumping to a Linux native phone when my current device dies.

>you can trust them not to install a malware that swipes your bitcoins

Sure, they might not take malware that swipes my crypto, but I wouldn't put it past them to take malware that uses my resources to mine for crypto. What is the downside for them?