Re:Show HN: WhatsApp MCP running free on Cloudflare
by SchemaLoad on Sunday October 18, 2026 @08:49PM
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There's a difference between small scale screenshotting certain conversations, and wholesale vacuuming up everything in to the AI machine.
Re:Show HN: WhatsApp MCP running free on Cloudflare
by hamburglar on Monday October 19, 2026 @03:37AM
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Except now there’s not. The fact is, when you tell somebody something, what they choose to do with it is out of your hands. Unless you want to start using drm-encumbered systems.
Re:Show HN: WhatsApp MCP running free on Cloudflare
by ale42 on Monday October 19, 2026 @05:10AM
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There's still a difference between a person deciding to share one or a bunch of messages they receive --usually I know the people I write to, so I know more or less what to expect-- and systematically uploading received message to some AI. Fine if they do it locally, not fine if the messages I write end up at Google, OpenAI or anybody else.
Re:Show HN: WhatsApp MCP running free on Cloudflare
by hamburglar on Monday October 19, 2026 @05:46AM
(#50150354)
This is unrealistic. Hardly anyone who is going to feed their own messages to an AI is going to pay attention to whether it’s local or cloud based. Get real.
Re:Show HN: WhatsApp MCP running free on Cloudflare
by ale42 on Monday October 19, 2026 @06:51AM
(#50150795)
Well, then not at all...
Re:Show HN: WhatsApp MCP running free on Cloudflare
by anonreplier on Monday October 19, 2026 @05:10AM
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So you're saying DRM is good now?
Re:Show HN: WhatsApp MCP running free on Cloudflare
by hamburglar on Monday October 19, 2026 @05:45AM
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No, I’m saying when you send messages to someone else, they are out of your control. Trying to fight that with DRM would be folly.
The entire concept of conversations being "secure" is only as good as your ability to trust the other party isn't doing something insecure with them (and that yours and their devices are, themselves, as secure as you think they are. Which they generally aren't.)
All of which is to say, it's security theater and always has been when applied to real life situations.