[liberationtech] Whatsapp, a Trojan horse for seekers of easy privacy?

[Al Billings]

> On Jan 17, 2015, at 3:08 AM, Aymeric Vitte <vitteaymeric at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> My 10 000th comment about this kind of discussion is always the same: js apps inside browsers (or to a certain extent nodejs, ff os), which surprisingly seem to be systematically disconsidered, can solve the application layer issue and related countries specific laws/restrictions, because you cannot hide anything, assuming that you got the right code, which you can check from different third parties.

This is exactly what Firefox OS does. It’s also an open source project. I’m surprised more of the folks here aren’t involved in contributing to it. Hell, you can run it on a Raspberry Pi or any of the smaller devices as well with a little work, not just phones.