Iranian state television has urged people to remove WhatsApp from their smart phones, alleging without specific evidence that the messaging app gathered user information to send to Israel.
They are basically at war with the US and there is this piece of US Tech that nearly everyone is carrying around and that can access their communications, precise location, microphone and camera.
It’s also owned by a company, Meta, that has a history of being used as a tool to manipulate public opinion.
I have no particular sympathy for Iran’s leadership but I can understand why they would advice that (and I don’t think WhatsApp is the only way for people to communicate with the outside world).
I get what you mean and it’s a fair point. But I would still go with Meta as the most immediate threat in a war with the US.
As the ignorant I am, I understand the phone manufacturer has a level of control on the way Android works and so it wouldn’t be as easy for Google to access any individual Samsung or Xiaomi phone as it is for Meta with WhatsApp, an app they fully control with permissions to use (way too many) phone features regardless of brand.
Plus, getting both Google and Apple to cooperate and coordinate sounds harder to me than just going to one company, that is basically controlled by only one person.
They are probably using Xiaomi which is based in China, using AOSP with whatever mods they throw on it, which isn’t based anywhere and is open source, or it could be Huawei too.
Huh? I was curious about this and looked up the wikis only. However, WhatsApp initial release was 16 years ago and Signal initial release was 10 years ago. It also appears in the history that WhatsApp had a version on iOS in 2009 while Signal didn’t have anything for Android until 2010 (under Whisper I believe).
I’m trying to figure out how either is a clone of the other when they were developed around the same times. It seems the idea was just a similar idea from two different entities.
The only people making Iranians suffer at the moment are the Zionist fascists and their US proxies. They’ve already killed 1200 people in their unprovoked attack, including with terrorism and car bombs.
Don’t forget Trump telling the ENTIRE city of Tehran with a population the size of New York to “evacuate”
Why is this good advice? They want their people to suffer. They want them to not communicate with the outside world
They are basically at war with the US and there is this piece of US Tech that nearly everyone is carrying around and that can access their communications, precise location, microphone and camera.
It’s also owned by a company, Meta, that has a history of being used as a tool to manipulate public opinion. I have no particular sympathy for Iran’s leadership but I can understand why they would advice that (and I don’t think WhatsApp is the only way for people to communicate with the outside world).
Okay so they uninstall WhatsApp? What operating systems are they using and what countries are the manufacturers for those based in?
I get what you mean and it’s a fair point. But I would still go with Meta as the most immediate threat in a war with the US. As the ignorant I am, I understand the phone manufacturer has a level of control on the way Android works and so it wouldn’t be as easy for Google to access any individual Samsung or Xiaomi phone as it is for Meta with WhatsApp, an app they fully control with permissions to use (way too many) phone features regardless of brand.
Plus, getting both Google and Apple to cooperate and coordinate sounds harder to me than just going to one company, that is basically controlled by only one person.
They are probably using Xiaomi which is based in China, using AOSP with whatever mods they throw on it, which isn’t based anywhere and is open source, or it could be Huawei too.
Meta is also literally developing AI war machines for the US. That also runs on said data from WhatsApp.
Signal is a much better choice and its basically a whatsapp clone.
other way around. Whatsapp is a signal clone.
Huh? I was curious about this and looked up the wikis only. However, WhatsApp initial release was 16 years ago and Signal initial release was 10 years ago. It also appears in the history that WhatsApp had a version on iOS in 2009 while Signal didn’t have anything for Android until 2010 (under Whisper I believe).
I’m trying to figure out how either is a clone of the other when they were developed around the same times. It seems the idea was just a similar idea from two different entities.
The only people making Iranians suffer at the moment are the Zionist fascists and their US proxies. They’ve already killed 1200 people in their unprovoked attack, including with terrorism and car bombs.
Don’t forget Trump telling the ENTIRE city of Tehran with a population the size of New York to “evacuate”