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Leaked phone number of Mark Zuckerberg reveals he is on Signal (www.msn.com)

submitted 3 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Original twitter thread for those interested here: https://twitter.com/Daviey/status/1378645798439768064

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 years ago (1 children)

The guy doesn't trust his own company's products to be private and secure enough for messaging.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 years ago (1 children)

That is a very large leap to assume from the leaked data. IIUC the leaked data just says that there was a Signal account associated to his phone number. It could have been one friend or journalist that he wanted to talk to. He may have signed up to see what it is all about. As far as I am aware there is no evidence that he was a significant user, or that he prefers it over his own messaging apps.

I'm not saying that FB apps are trustworthy, but I honestly would have been more surprised if he didn't have a signal account.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 years ago

In addition they contracted the creator of Signal to implement e2ee in WhatsApp some years ago, so it is likely that this is related.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago)

stop assuming that creators always use their own products. he probably has everything because people are on different platforms.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 years ago (1 children)

Like Steve Jobs using Android instead iphone still wounder why ?

[–] [email protected] -5 points 3 years ago

Like Huawei CEO Ren Zhengfei using iPhone? Why? Probably because in your and my cited cases, they want to know rivals' strategies.

Zuckerberg is a totally different case.