Leaving WhatsApp? Don't use Telegram if you want privacy!

You might've heard about WhatsApp; WhatsApp used to be really popular. I've had a listener before ask me about using WhatsApp overseas. It was a family member who was serving in the military, and they wanted something secure. They asked about WhatsApp, and I said, I don't know. A little bit of moaning and groaning there, I'm not too fond of WhatsApp because of Facebook.

Facebook, our friends over there, decided that they were a couple of weeks ago to come out with new terms of use. And that new terms of use have language that made it sound like maybe they'd be spying on us. Now that Facebook has come out and said, no, we're not going to break the end to end encryption.

In other words, we won't be able to decrypt your conversations. However, we are going to start sharing your information with advertisers, et cetera. Sharing your information about WhatsApp, an encrypted, supposedly secure chat app, might cause problems. You can imagine someone knocking on your door and saying, why are you using encrypted communications?

And in fact, you have every right to; it is the best thing to do. You don't want bad guys getting their hands on it. And in some parts of the world, the governments just can not be trusted, and they are trying to monitor everything that's going on. So that's why I've never been a fan of WhatsApp. And why so many people have migrated off of WhatsApp.