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You can check whith your own cellphone, if a phone number have a Whatsapp account, without any hacker knowledge, this is not significant at all.
by krater23 4y ago
You can check whith your own cellphone, if a phone number have a Whatsapp account, without any hacker knowledge, this is not significant at all.
- tuyguntn 4y ago> this is not significant at all. I wonder if HN community would say same if Telegram data was leaked in a similar way
- throwup 4y agoI might be missing something here. Why would HN care any differently about WhatsApp vs Telegram?
- elashri 4y agoProbably he is referring to that WhatsApp is from a US company vs telegram with Russian origin.
- tuyguntn 4y agogeneral tendency in HN is Telegram bad, Signal/WhatsApp is good. Even small mistake made by Telegram will be judged harshly, when it comes to WhatsApp, their mistakes are not important. Yes I am a Telegram fanboy (how can you not like such a beautiful/fast app, in the Electron world where everything takes 10s of seconds to load)
- emeril 4y agoSignal seems like a pretty light/fast/good electron app (on windows at least)?
- arkadiyt 4y agoWhatsApp chats are end-to-end encrypted (even their iCloud backups are). Telegram group messages are always plaintext / available to Telegram, and Telegram 1:1 direct messages are plaintext by default.
- stereoradonc 4y agoYet they hold the encryption keys to decrypt your chats on the fly. What inspires so much trust in Meta? Especially in a company with "targeted advertisements" as its business?
- soupfordummies 4y agoThat mostly seems to be what they did lol! “ 2. Only Verified Whatsapp Numbers - Country Wise ( This is to cover all the mobile subscribers exhaustively . We generate mobile numbers based teh series allocated for the telecom operators in each countries and then verify / validate those numbers with the Whatsapp Servers )”