If it is a surveillance then street photography is too. Camera pointing at spectators isn't good either...

The question is what happens to developers. Will they quit the industry or move to smaller companies?

And open war crimes like intentionally killing civilians (TV broadcasters in Iran for example, or Gaza en mass)

then

> Memory-safe language.

What's the point? Looks like today Rust is like 3D printing was. As if it makes something better. Printing was hyped and advertised by printers sellers and manufacturers. Finally they run out of money.

As for project, it's cool if compatible with old soft. Otherwise suitable mostly for education and masochism. Long way to become practical anyway even if it gets traction.

Durov was pressed from every side from the beginning, no doubts about this. But CIA or FSB cannot demand it legally even with secret court orders. There were news that since arrest in France he started providing some info on criminals. Not sure how far did he go. But it's good to know that Whatsup is fully cooperating with governments even when they don't have to. Putting people at risk.

As for smartphones, there are so many security holes that it's impossible to secure. Many harmless applications are calling home, pictures are geo-targeted, cell towers can request info from connected phones, every update can turn OS or app into trojan. If infected it's a perfect audio and video collection device. Put together with soldiers' IDs it shows where the unit is. Add to that CIA and alike working with weakening everyone's security and getting priority access to sensitive information.

if it was it would be true for telegram as well.

I was trying to say that dropping old technologies isn't always bad.

> It’s like if I was hiring a mathematician.

Do you expect candidate to memorize all theorems up to date. Usually people forgetting things they don't actively use. But they are able to refresh their knowledge if needed. I've learned quite a lot, but no, I don't remember even key theorems from partial differential equations (used them in my diploma). I can refresh and relearn quickly, I'm sure.

Using LLM without understanding disqualifies the candidate, even monkey can do it. But if he deeply understands the subject and uses LLM for like handbook for minor details.. that's different.

Well, today only scientists can make stone tools.