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> From a business perspective: what should FB and WhatsApp do?

V e r y simple: stuck to the existing business model.

Or: if they really needed to make it free for consumers: their second idea, free for consumers, charge for business access (api etc). I was actually looking forward to that.

> As an aside: Telegram is not, and never will-be, a secure platform as has been detailed on HN by cryptographic experts when the service first launched.

Neither is twitter. I don't see any of you complain about how tweets are public for the world to see.

Telegram isn't a tool to defeat NSA, it is a tool to send stuff faster than email, with 100% less Facebook.

I can admit though that Telgrams marketing of their encryption has been at least borderline dishones.




> I can admit though that Telgrams marketing of their encryption has been at least borderline dishones.

So, 100% Facebook free with a company that is borderline dishonest in how it communicates about the things we can confirm... Why is that the better devil?


Telegram was borderline dishonest.

Facebook is dishonest which is why consumer watchdogs are threatening to sue.




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