WhatsApp on your computer: Pidgin plugin

Re:WhatsApp on your computer: Pidgin plugin by salient on Sunday December 15, 2013 @07:48PM (#6911910)

It would be nice if Whatsapp, which is so popular, would help make its users a lot more secure by adopting end-to-end encryption, perhaps like what TextSecure v2 is using.

Getting people to use services with proper encryption is going to be a very slow process unless we convince/pressure the big ones to do it.

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Re:WhatsApp on your computer: Pidgin plugin by mxchael on Sunday December 15, 2013 @08:39PM (#6912156)

But you can't make any money with encrypted data.

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Re:WhatsApp on your computer: Pidgin plugin by sturmeh on Sunday December 15, 2013 @10:43PM (#6912699)

So like Telegram, which is basically the same app but nobody uses it? (http://telegram.org/)

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Re:WhatsApp on your computer: Pidgin plugin by m-app on Monday December 16, 2013 @03:53AM (#6913577)

"Very secure. We are based on a new protocol, MTProto, built by our own specialists from scratch, with security in mind."

I do not think that is such a great idea. I still vote Threema: https://threema.ch/

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Re:WhatsApp on your computer: Pidgin plugin by macalicious on Monday December 16, 2013 @03:42AM (#6913548)

Wow, never heard of it before today. This should definitely be promoted more! I was surprised there was only one old news here on HN. I submitted a new one: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6913456

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Re:WhatsApp on your computer: Pidgin plugin by mvanotti on Monday December 16, 2013 @02:32AM (#6913375)

Wow, this sounds awesome. I hope it becomes popular :)

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