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Re: [telecom] help?! problems sending cellular "texts"

From "John Levine" <johnl@taugh.com>
Newsgroups comp.dcom.telecom
Subject Re: [telecom] help?! problems sending cellular "texts"
Date 2024-12-24 18:50 +0000
Organization The Telecom Digest
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According to Lars Poulsen <lars@beagle-ears.com>:
>On 12/20/2024 21:50, danny burstein wrote:
>This is one reason, the recommendation is now to use Signal for secure 
>messaging to thwart both the Chinese spies in our telcom systems and 
>Zuckerberg's spyware in WhatsApp.

I agree that Signal is a good choice, but WhatsApp is not bad.  It uses the
same internal protocol as Signal, so they can't see the contents of messages.
They can see the metadata, who you're sending messages to, but not what they
say.

If you are communicating with people outside North America, WhatsApp is what
everyone uses.

There has been spyware in WhatsApp, but it's malware planted by NSO's Pegasus
product.  Meta has spent a great deal of time and money successfully taking
them to court to make it stop.

https://techcrunch.com/2024/12/23/whatsapp-scores-historic-victory-against-nso-group-in-long-running-spyware-hacking-case/

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[telecom] help?!  problems sending cellular "texts" "danny burstein" <dannyb@panix.com> - 2024-12-21 05:50 +0000
  Re: [telecom] help?! problems sending cellular "texts" "Lars Poulsen" <lars@beagle-ears.com> - 2024-12-23 18:36 -0800
    Re: [telecom] help?! problems sending cellular "texts" "John Levine" <johnl@taugh.com> - 2024-12-24 18:50 +0000

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