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When had anyone reverse engineered their way to a compatible client for FB Messenger or WhatsApp? To my knowledge there are only hacky bridges that involve runn
by Y_Y 4y ago
When had anyone reverse engineered their way to a compatible client for FB Messenger or WhatsApp? To my knowledge there are only hacky bridges that involve running the official client under the hood.
- londons_explore 4y ago[1] is that for whatsapp. It implements everything from scratch, including the crypto and all the many layers of message encapsulation. I believe there are a few other clients too. It even implements the API's to create a new account, so you don't even need to touch their client code at all. FB messenger doesn't yet have e2e encryption, so there hasn't yet been any need. [1]: https://github.com/tgalal/yowsup https://github.com/tgalal/yowsup
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- btdmaster 4y agoIt looks like they're getting users banned [0] for using alternative clients. [0] https://github.com/tgalal/yowsup/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+ban https://github.com/tgalal/yowsup/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aop...
- saurik 4y agoThat doesn't mean it didn't work; in fact, quite the opposite!