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by baby 1240 days ago
> Taking into account that they are known to work closely with the FBI

This is basically true for any sizable company in the US. And this is also true with small companies. If the FBI wants to work with you, you don't really have a choice.

And if you're not in the US, you're working with whoever is the FBI in that country.
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masterof0 1239 days ago
No you are not, many companies have warrant canaries. Or make public the warrants, and state exactly all the information they can share with the authorities, that is usually nothing besides IP, or device the customer used to connect. My point was that Facebook will decrypt(in the case that are really encrypted) your messages.
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baby 1239 days ago
> many companies have warrant canaries

Many? It feels like it's been 10 years since I've seen one, and it's only a US thing. I'm wondering if Signal still has one (I can't find it, so maybe the canary is "dead"). Canaries are also a legal grey area.

> My point was that Facebook will decrypt(in the case that are really encrypted) your messages

That's FUD.

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