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Re:Reverse Engineering the Facebook Messenger API by Lammy on Saturday April 08, 2023 @03:14AM (#35491262)
Fun fact: there is a 'wishlist`-priority task sitting in FB's Tasks system with detailed plans for how to change the MQTT API to break third-party clients should any of them become too popular.
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Re:Reverse Engineering the Facebook Messenger API by anticensor on Saturday April 08, 2023 @02:37PM (#35496247)
Did you learn about this first hand or is there any source you can cite?
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Re:Reverse Engineering the Facebook Messenger API by Lammy on Saturday April 08, 2023 @04:27PM (#35497278)
There's nothing I can cite. Saw it myself many years ago. I doubt many of the people who worked on that iteration of Messenger are even there any more, but it shows the attitude of the organization as a whole.
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