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An app's encryption claims can only be verified with open source and reproducible builds, which WhatsApp has never offered.

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  1. Pavel Durov

    Founder of Telegram, and before it of VK

    You need reproducible builds in order to verify that the app really does what it claims, really encrypts data in a way that it is described on its website. For that you need to make your apps open source for any researchers to have a look at it.

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    ↗Pavel Durov: Telegram, Freedom, Censorship, Money, Power & Human Nature | Lex Fridman Podcast #482youtube.com

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