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Re:WhatsApp backdoor allows snooping on encrypted messages by speakr on Friday January 13, 2017 @08:15AM (#13390545)
I guess it's worth mentioning that people are currently working on removing the Google services dependency in Signal: https://github.com/WhisperSystems/Signal-Android/pull/5962
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Re:WhatsApp backdoor allows snooping on encrypted messages by lucb1e on Friday January 13, 2017 @10:44AM (#13391625)
That is good to know, thank you for sharing that! I'll be following this and try Signal again when it should finally work on my phone :)
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Re:WhatsApp backdoor allows snooping on encrypted messages by rthomas6 on Friday January 13, 2017 @03:20PM (#13394354)
Looks like they are waiting for the calling portion of the app to become open source. Any ETA on that?
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