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The WhatsApp backdoor is now public and official. I have said this many times: there is no future for privacy or security tools that are centralized or proprietary. If you can't decentralize it some government will strongarm you for access. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
This is why I am so obsessed with decentralized reproducible builds for #!os so no one ever trusts me by design. When some entity asks me to backdoor it won't matter as people will just see the new backdoor patch file in the repo and opt to not include it in their builds.
Signal, iMessage, Whatsapp, Telegram, Slack, Discord etc will all see these backdoors come and there is not a thing you as a consumer can do about it except move your communications to open protocols like matrix where you can take control of the clients AND servers as needed.
The client being open source is not good enough as the server could just ban all clients that don't encrypt a copy of all messages to the backdoor key. If the server is open they pop up everywhere in different legal jurisdictions and you can move to one that is not compromised.
Don't buy the nonsense that spying on the nudes of every teen couple is going to stop terrorism. Terrorists see these articles too and will just move to provably secure systems too.
Governments will find other reasons to use their new power. See: Chinese social credit score.
Governments will find other reasons to use their new power. See: Chinese social credit score.
