[gmjosack]

Interestingly my girlfriend has been using What's App to communicate with her family in Venezuela cheaply throughout the last week since they've been unable to get any news. It's really sad to see the government act this way and hopefully the realize that they're causing a lot of unrest in their citizens. It's always inspiring to see citizens standing up to the government in all these other countries. you see some protests in the States but it never feels near the scale.

[higherpurpose]

Let's hope Whatsapp doesn't have a deal with the Venezuelan government for access to its data, too, then?

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/07/messaging-apps-gove...

If I were them I wouldn't take the risk, and use something more secure. Here's a list of open source secure messaging apps she or others could use:

http://missingm.co/2014/02/fighting-dishfire-the-state-of-mo...

[nzonbi]

From my experience, I can tell that they have irrestricted access to whatsapp and facebook.

[kaonashi]

When you're under full assault from the US intelligence agencies, sometimes you overreact.

[tsotha]

I doubt the US is involved. What would be the point? It's been obvious for years eventually the government would run out of other peoples' money and fail to deliver basic services. Once you start in with price controls the end is near.

[kaonashi]

They've been involved for years… they're going to sit this one out?

[tsotha]

What evidence do you have the US intelligence agencies are involved in Venezuela?

[kaonashi]

Are or were? Were, there's plenty. Are -- well we're talking about a covert agency, no?

[tsotha]

What is the latest incident you can document involving US intelligence agencies and Venezuela?

[kjs3]

Invoke the boogie-man of "US spies" and open fire on your own people. FTFY.