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+1 for signal but i doubt whatsapp is ahead at all
Whatsapp uses end to end encryption and is far from as intrusive as wechat.
So they say, but its closed source, so its hard to verify.
Nah it's rather easy to do and has been done by security experts. If your phone is a rooted android, you can do it yourself using PCAPdroid, it's basically a network logger that allows to install a trusted certificate as a local proxy and go man in the middle on yourself. That way you can decrypt the https traffic between your phone and the whatsapp server.
whatsapp is certainly backdoored, its closed source and unverifiable.
then so does your claim, unverifiable
my claim is completely open, unlike whatsapp
At least Whaysapp have the content encrypted
its certainly backdoored