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		AussieWog93 on Oct 25, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: WhatsApp scaled to 1B users with only 50 engineers >I'm so confused by this thread. It's like you guys are pasting the output of an ML model with only the input "secure" at me. You talked about encryption on HN. What do you expect? Might as well have brought up gun control at a Republican rally. (Not that you were anything but 100% right. The general public didn't care about encryption at all until the Snowden leaks.)

HeyLaughingBoy on Oct 25, 2021 [–]

They still don't!

AussieWog93 on Oct 25, 2021 | [–]

I think that depends on how you define "general public". My mum doesn't, but my (far more digitally savvy) teenage cousin does.

Back in 2009, though, this was a very different story. Even tech-savvy people didn't care.

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