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Re: Whatsapp Web

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Post by Animats »

What did they do in an add-on that won't work in Firefox? Chrome add-ons and Firefox add-ons are rather close; I have one that has about 80% common code.

Re: Whatsapp Web

#36

Post by D_Guidi »

fabrice_d wrote: post #15

So it seems to do some pairing between your phone and chrome? Not really what I call a web version. A real web version would run on, you know, any reasonably recent web browser.

I suspect that pairing is needed only to not use an account other that phone number

Re: Whatsapp Web

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Post by higherpurpose »

nichochar wrote: post #17
radicalbyte wrote: post #14

I thought that Whatsapp didn't store (or read) messages, and that was why it was so secure / awesome? So how can they do this?

You're mistaken, they do store. And don't hide it. Also they don't even encrypt, they send messages over the air in plain text. YAY $16 billion!

Ugh. This is why I was saying before that I'm quite worried that Whatsapp itself didn't come out and say publicly that it uses TextSecure's end-to-end protocol, and that we should stop praising them for "adopting end-to-end encryption" until they actually say they did (for which I got downvoted).

Re: Whatsapp Web

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Post by conqrr »

This is truly useless, It needs your phone to stay on to access the web version. And why is it a web version if only Google Chrome is supported.
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