Does that mean that other apps like signal for example have back doors?

Do criminals have a knowledge of exploits in the recommended messaging apps?

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    9 days ago

    That’s a very simplistic way of arguing or thinking about the issue. You are in fact not surrounded by idiots. Not everybody has expertise in your field (or the field you believe to be an expert in), so to you, it might seem obvious, but them, it’s not.

    Ridiculing others for “omg that was so obvious” is a failure on your part to see the obvious: they have other shit going on. I’d like to see you become a successful drug lord, escape capture for decades, and be an expert in computing at the same time. It wouldn’t surprise me if you’d utterly fail at the drug lord part and make basic mistakes that a drug lord would call you an idiot for.

    Anti Commercial-AI license

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      9 days ago

      Look, no one needs to be an expert on everything, in the context of running a drug ring, being stupid means not having the roght experts for the right tasks.

      If I was a drug lord I would start by hiring someone who has done it in the past.

      If you approach cyber security with the mindset that it is simple and you don’t need an expert, then you are an idiot. Same as if you approached almost any subject with dire consequences if done poorly.

      So yeah, if your “cyber security expert” is your computer guy who does everything, unless he is actually a cyber security expert, you are an idiot.