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Re:Why Jabber reigns across the Russian cybercrime underground by utf_8x on Monday January 18, 2021 @04:11AM (#25819789)
Did the author of the article bother to do any research at all?

The "popular" messaging service HipChat has been dead since 2018 when Slack acquired it's codebase and moved it's users to Slack.

WhatsApp no longer runs on Jabber/XMPP. They used to run on modified eJabberd a long time ago but these days they use a combination of Signal and something custom...

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Re:Why Jabber reigns across the Russian cybercrime underground by whoknew1122 on Monday January 18, 2021 @09:33AM (#25822128)
The article is from 2017. Should've been put in the thread title, but yeah...
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Re:Why Jabber reigns across the Russian cybercrime underground by utf_8x on Monday January 18, 2021 @11:15AM (#25823187)
Ah, haven't noticed that... In that case the HipChat bit makes more sense although I still wouldn't call it popular...

WhatsApp switched to Signal Protocol in 2016 however so that point still stands.

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