• troglodyke@lemmy.federate.cc
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    3 months ago

    Whilst WhatsApp is still owned by meta and I’m sure the US military would have a lot use for the metadata they collect, let’s be honest, I’m sure Putin would prefer if Russians switched to a platform they can spy on themselves

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      3 months ago

      I’ve read that MAX (typical horse taste of modern Russian official names, similar to Rosgvardia, Gosuslugi, Rostech and so on ; Soviet-time many-many-many caps abbreviations are boring, but somehow better) in its current early versions is a piece of spyware looking like Telegram, literally saving passwords and banking data and browsing history. Well, I’m almost certain Telegram itself is not much better.

      Installed Briar on my phone and persuaded my sister, and to my grandma’s today.