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Re: Wacli – WhatsApp CLI

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WhatsApp is end-to-end encrypted. No one at Meta can read your messages.

How are we sure that it is really end-to-end encrypted?

Moxie Marlinspike (founder of Signal) [0]implemented the same E2EE algorithm as Signal (Signal Protocol) into WhatsApp, but that was 10 years ago, so who knows if things have changed since then.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moxie_Marlinspike

Re: Wacli – WhatsApp CLI

#122
There's a whole cottage industry around WhatsApp that exists to provide tools and services to commodity brokers and traders, primarily for compliance and bulk messaging existing customers. Meta has nerfed bulk forwarding on their desktop app, and the industry moved to third party tools to work around this. The reality is, no-one is spamming, everyone is consenting to this, everyone understands the risks, but a lot of markets live on the WhatsApp network, and despite there being compliant chat solutions, the existing network effects keep the status quo. Prior to WhatsApp, the markets operated on Yahoo Messenger, and the only reason there was a move was because Yahoo shut it down in 2016.

If anyone from Meta is reading this - we've spoken to some of your managers and there's zero appetite from your side to address this market because it's too small. I would go out of my way to help you design this for free to solve the market need.

Re: Wacli – WhatsApp CLI

#123

I just use telegram. Just yesterday I setup a bot which is easy via botfather And also, setup an app (claude built it but I had to fiddle with it, it works like pagerduty) but uses cloudflate worker to push downtime/errors (via fcm) in production (from graphana) via webhooks to "full screen, by pass dnd, alerts, with loud music, this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H0IQBWWabuU ) I named the app "Siren". It's not…

> I just use telegram. And how do you just get everyone you want to speak to use telegram?

Don't worry, it'll auto-spam all of your contacts when you sign up to take care of that.

Re: Wacli – WhatsApp CLI

#124

I just use telegram. Just yesterday I setup a bot which is easy via botfather And also, setup an app (claude built it but I had to fiddle with it, it works like pagerduty) but uses cloudflate worker to push downtime/errors (via fcm) in production (from graphana) via webhooks to "full screen, by pass dnd, alerts, with loud music, this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H0IQBWWabuU ) I named the app "Siren". It's not…

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Was this on a desktop? I'd think it's far more likely malware or a browser extension is hijacking your clipboard

Re: Wacli – WhatsApp CLI

#125

Beware that if this does not use a real web browser then it's likely to get your whatsapp account suspended. Don't use it with any account you care about, you will lose all your data. Hell, I got my whatsapp account suspended (appealed and reversed) just for using the official web client too soon after creating a new account.

Right now I see many bots on WhatsApp.

They use a real browser

Re: Wacli – WhatsApp CLI

#127

(Caveat I’m the founder of https://wassist.app - The WhatsApp Agent Platform) Please be very careful using this tool to automate your WhatsApp - if you send too many messages, too quickly, you are going to get banned. This is NOT an officially supported api by WhatsApp and the risk of ban is relatively high

The way I would put it as someone who works at Beeper is: only use messaging automations for personal use, and don't use it to spam anyone or do anything you wouldn't do yourself within the app. As long as you don't abuse and keep your usage within the parameters of any human, you'll be fine.

Personal use is all fun and games until your little beeper goes into a loop.

Re: Wacli – WhatsApp CLI

#128

(Caveat I’m the founder of https://wassist.app - The WhatsApp Agent Platform) Please be very careful using this tool to automate your WhatsApp - if you send too many messages, too quickly, you are going to get banned. This is NOT an officially supported api by WhatsApp and the risk of ban is relatively high

just so we know the consequences - is ban permanent? is there an appeals processes?

Re: Wacli – WhatsApp CLI

#129
post #75

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zuck can read your whatsapp messages, at this point I think I'd rather criminals and the government read them instead

WhatsApp is end-to-end encrypted. No one at Meta can read your messages.

If I can log into whatsapp on a new device and old messages aren’t encrypted then they have a copy of your key and it is not true e2e encryption.

Re: Wacli – WhatsApp CLI

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post #107

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You can rent a virtual mobile number in your home country and consult SMSs on the web or even redirect them to email. I have done this for years, using Twilio for 2€ a month. Can't say the UX is great but it certainly fixes the whole problem. I've never understood why so many people still chain their identities to physical SIM or even eSIMs. It's so fragile.

Yeah, that's a good workaround. Google Voice can work too. Unfortunately, more and more services are declining to send to VoIP numbers because of seCurItY, so it's a game of cat and mouse. Fortunately SMS is so expensive in parts of Europe and it's not allowable anymore to use SMS by itself for online payment authentication, and both issues combined have slowly been pushing companies to explore alternatives. There un…

If you port a landline number to a VoIP service, services can't really tell that you're using VoIP, as far as I can tell.
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