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Re:U.S. government seeks Facebook help to wiretap Messenger by tribesman on Saturday August 18, 2018 @12:30AM (#17786875)
The other day i posted a rant on p2p here on HN and everyone was like, huh! Use whatsapp.

We need to build our own p2p and e2e secure chat client like whatsapp which works on every platform.

Sure, it's possible - skype was exactly this before except for the e2e part.

Why we techies can't? Let's make a group and dissect the problem in our free time. Who is up for it?

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Re:U.S. government seeks Facebook help to wiretap Messenger by mos_basik on Saturday August 18, 2018 @01:38AM (#17787041)
Some people are working on this problem. You might be interested in looking at the Matrix standard [0] or some of the things built using it like Riot [1], a Slack-like web client supporting text, voice and video communication for one-on-one or group contexts.

0: https://matrix.org/docs/guides/faq.html

1: https://about.riot.im/what-is-riot/

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