WhatsApp is broken, really broken
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WhatsApp is broken, really broken
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Re: WhatsApp is broken, really broken
#2Sadly, normal free Jabber/XMPP does not seem to be a viable alternative. On Android, sure (though the clients are not too great at reconnecting/noticing-connection-loss/reporting-message-reception) but on iOS apparently you cannot run such things in the background. At least the situation was dire when I tried to convince some iOS friends to use XMPP instead of SMS last winter. http://monal.im/ looked most promising but turned out to crash or only work when active, I don't fully remember. Maybe it got better.
Re: WhatsApp is broken, really broken
#3So, what's the best alternative?
Re: WhatsApp is broken, really broken
#4I've been seriously considering creating a highly secure text messaging replacement. I'm aware of TextSecure but find it lacking (and only available on Android). I'd love to hear if you guys think it would be a worthwhile project.
Re: WhatsApp is broken, really broken
#5So, what's the best alternative?
Kik uses XMPP over SSL and has user-defined passwords
Re: WhatsApp is broken, really broken
#6I've been seriously considering creating a highly secure text messaging replacement. I'm aware of TextSecure but find it lacking (and only available on Android). I'd love to hear if you guys think it would be a worthwhile project.
What is the target market? I mentally treat all messages as insecure, and no self-proclaimed secure system would change my thoughts.
Re: WhatsApp is broken, really broken
#7So, what's the best alternative?
None with enough traction so i guess this has to go mainstream.
Interesting though that i have not gotten any spam messages so far.
Re: WhatsApp is broken, really broken
#8Did the author email the WhatsApp team to give them any chance to fix this before they splashed it across the internet for anyone to abuse? The article makes no mention of it, so I assume not.
In my opinion, the obscurity peeled off by this expose did more to endanger WhatsApp users than the bad programming. So, I can only conclude this post's main goal is page views. OP could easily warn them, and at least wait until they didn't do anything before publishing.
Re: WhatsApp is broken, really broken
#9So, what's the best alternative?
Email?
Re: WhatsApp is broken, really broken
#10I've been seriously considering creating a highly secure text messaging replacement. I'm aware of TextSecure but find it lacking (and only available on Android). I'd love to hear if you guys think it would be a worthwhile project.
If it works on android/ios I'm a customer. I'm using textsecure right now.