[gruez]

>Government: Zuck put a backdoor in WhatsApp or we will put you in a blacksite UFC ring and beat you up.

Source?

>Also Government: WhatsApp has a backdoor. Don't use it.

If "zuck" is really in the pocket of the US government, why should they worry about their own backdoors?

[latexr]

> If "zuck" is really in the pocket of the US government, why should they worry about their own backdoors?

Have you ever watched a Saturday morning cartoon? Minions betray their masters all the time. An effective evil overlord doesn’t underestimate their lackey’s capacity for duplicity and betrayal at a pivotal moment.

The most fun may even appreciate the gall: https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/The_Nagus_(episode)#:~:...

[bookofjoe]

I have a movie for you: "Broken City" (2013) great cast and constantly unexpected turns of events

[latexr]

Thank you for the recommendation, but definitely not for me. Couldn’t get past the half-way mark.

[bookofjoe]

à chacun son goût

[kurthr]

Once it's backdoored you don't know who's watching it.

It's the most hilarious thing about backdoors or collecting extensive covert intel on your own population, that any failure of opsec makes it much easier for all your adversaries to also spy on them in ways they would never otherwise be able to, then compromise them, and flip them.

[bix6]

Why would there be a source for a backdoor of a closed source application?

[some_random]

Usually when you make important claims it's expected you back them up with some sort of evidence.

[nicce]

There was a joke in there which might have gone unnoticed.

[bix6]

Whoosh!!!! :p

[0x457]

Sources to back up the claim, not source code of the application.

[numair]

> Source?

https://www.facebook.com/security/advisories/cve-2019-3568

[some_random]

Software frequently has bugs and sometimes they have security implications. In order to claim that a specific bug is a backdoor you need to have evidence beyond the existence of a bug.

[ElevenLathe]

House (legislative branch) staffers presumably don't want executive branch snoops reading their group chats. Doubly so for Democratic staffers not wanting specifically the Trump executive branch reading them.