Facebook to pull chat from iOS and Android apps in favour of Facebook Messenger

Re:Facebook to pull chat from iOS and Android apps in favour... by nosage on Thursday April 10, 2014 @08:23AM (#7565463)

Very interesting theory! Google must not have realized this because all of the google apps are in a single folder. Still, my home screen is 4 out of 20: Google folder, Gmail, Chrome and Authenticator.

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Re:Facebook to pull chat from iOS and Android apps in favour... by sillysaurus3 on Thursday April 10, 2014 @08:46AM (#7565591)

Random question: Is Authenticator secure from Google themselves? I thought "yes," but after thinking a little more it seems like the answer is "maybe not."

What's to prevent an app like Authenticator from uploading its cryptographic seeds to Google's servers?

I was wondering why a company would invest resources into creating an app like Authenticator, which seems to have no obvious path toward monetization. But if the company who writes Authenticator can also spy on its users, then that might be the answer.

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Re:Facebook to pull chat from iOS and Android apps in favour... by xyzzy123 on Thursday April 10, 2014 @08:58AM (#7565664)

It's not hard to decompile and verify Authenticator if you really need to.

IMHO the real problem is the actual OS :/

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