[comte7092]

Very difficult to take this article seriously when it characterizes WhatsApp and signal as “obvious honeypots” of “foreign nation states” (obviously in reference here to non western aligned countries).

Absolutely a ridiculous statement.

[xethos]

Targeting, blackmailing, or extorting a Facebook engineer to insert a subtle backdoor into a closed-source app does seem like a hell of an investment for the Kremlin. Currently stating it's a honeypot is a touch hyperbolic, but I wouldn't be at all surprised to see it happen

And even to a Canadian like me, America is objectively a foreign nation state. Notably, a foreign nation with a "business-focused" incoming president-elect that has previously tried to buy Greenland, and just went "Ha-ha wouldn't it make sense for Canada to become the fifty-first state"

If there was ever a time to trust America less, I'd argue it's now.

[comte7092]

Your reasoning it entirely fair. My point is that this is an article about the perspective of the US government, calling it an obvious honeypot of, say, Russia, is just farcical.