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Attaullah Baig, ex-head of security at WhatsApp, sues Meta for allegedly ignoring critical security flaws, claims Meta staffers could access sensitive user data (www.theregister.com)
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[–] autonomoususer@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

Who's waiting for them to lie to us? WhatsApp has always failed to include a libre software license text file, which means we’ve always been banned from forking it. We’ve never truly controlled it. Every decision, every update, every change comes from its owners, not us. We can never ensure it aligns with our needs or privacy values. We’re completely trapped in their every choice, with no way to force out abusive decisions. This lawsuit just proves what we’ve been losing all along, control over our own computing.