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Heh, Trillian and Pidgin worked pretty well before the newest batch of walled gardens. Whatever happened to reverse engineering for interoperability?
by voltagex_ 11y ago
Heh, Trillian and Pidgin worked pretty well before the newest batch of walled gardens. Whatever happened to reverse engineering for interoperability?
- colanderman 11y agoPermanent user bans: http://androidcommunity.com/whatsapp-issues-permanent-ban-on-users-with-3rd-party-apps-20150306/ http://androidcommunity.com/whatsapp-issues-permanent-ban-on...
- dest 11y agoI you can hack other's people accounts, it seems a good opportunity to force people out of WhatsApp. Just hack a guy's phone and connect him to WhatsApp through a third party client, get him permanently banned, and voilà!
- simgidacav 11y agoActually we see attempts to extend libpurple with many recent protocols. For instance telegram works on pidgin AFAIK, and I could recently see se a Tox plugin. Clearly we cannot play a fair game with the closed whatsapp, but hacking cannot be stopped or forbidden. After all, it was always like that. If you go back of 10 years al "regular people" had MSN and similar stuff, and we were IRCing. As a hacker, you migth feel sad, and think openness lost the war. IMHO the only difference is that nowadays we have much more "regular people" than before. They were simply sms-ing before they could access whatsapp.