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ByteDance won't sell TikTok, would rather pull it from the US (www.androidauthority.com)
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[–] impure9435@kbin.run 14 points 8 months ago (1 children)

*allegedly

No one knows for sure, since WhatsApp is proprietary

[–] makingrain@lemmy.world -2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

So are Signal's serverside components.

[–] impure9435@kbin.run 5 points 8 months ago

Uh, no? I don't know who told you this lie, but https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Server

Btw it wouldn't even matter, since the encryption happens in the client app. The server basically just passes around encrypted pieces of data between devices.