'Whatsapp isn't a scrapbook of your life; Facebook is.'
Whatsapp is about to become that scrapbook...
Now that both Whatsapp founders have left, there's no one at Facebook to stop Zuk prying open WhatsApp messages (see Washington Post article). There's speculation about how this will happen, since the encryption is based on the same one that underpins Signal. Will Facebook just slip an update out one day that has a backdoor???
With proprietary code, there's no way to confirm how Whatsapp is even working right now. Whereas Signal is on Github, you can compile it yourself! However Facebook is ready to monetize WhatsApp and that means it is about to become a scrapbook of your life.
Also there's 40-50 points of metadata still being sent from WhatsApp to Facebook, as things stand. My SO is forced to use WhatsApp at work. We started to noticed a hidden .facebook_cache folder containing journal entries. That never happened before! Note, we've never used Facebook...
Not sure what you're beef here is, but mine is that WhatsApp and Facebook are fast becoming one and the same toxic slurp!
Biting the hand that feeds IT
