Facebook- and Instagram-partent Meta is targeting Apple’s iMessage in a new advertisement touting Meta’s WhatsApp’s end-to-end SMS encryption.
On Monday, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg posted a picture of an ad in New York’s Penn Station that suggests Meta’s WhatsApp is more secure and private than Apple’s messaging system and traditional text messages.
“WhatsApp is far more private and secure than iMessage, with end-to-end encryption that works across both iPhones and Android, including group chats,” Zuckerberg posted on Instagram.
Both WhatsApp and iMessage are encrypted. But, messages and device backups on either service might be stored in a way that the company can access them. SMS messages are stored by wireless cellular carriers.
Apple’s iMessage is available for iPhones, Macs and iPads. Users who text regularly with Android users say that “green bubbles,” as SMS messages appear on iPhones, is an inferior texting experience.
MacDailyNews Take: Dude tramples all over his hapless users’ privacy on a daily basis and then expects sane people to give a rat’s ass about his company’s wares? Pfft. If you have to securely communicate with some poor soul who’s hamstrung themselves with porous Android, use Signal, not Zuckerware.
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Omg!!! I love, MDN’s response about Zuckerboy’s relationship to privacy! Bravo!
That being said, WhatsApp is the texting application of preference in Europe, and I have to run it primarily because of that. Its desktop software is still in the Fisher-Price state, but I got tired of trying to change peoples minds and get them to run the software that I prefer.
Zuck: Yeah so if you ever need info about anyone at Harvard
Zuck: Just ask.
Zuck: I have over 4,000 emails, pictures, addresses, SNS
[Redacted Friend’s Name]: What? How’d you manage that one?
Zuck: People just submitted it.
Zuck: I don’t know why.
Zuck: They “trust me”
Zuck: Dumb fucks.
I’d have more confidence with Apple if the iCloud backups were fully encrypted and they had not proposed to scan all the photographs on my phone without permission.
Could not agree more, Josh. Apple has violated customer trust in privacy when they used the WOKE EXCUSE and virtual signal “its for the children” RUSE, to SCAN spy on my photos. You also cited the Number One reason I will never, ever, use iCloud for anything trusting Apple with my personal data when I can do it myself…