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Facebook disabled users' accounts for violating WhatsApp TOS 3 years ago

I don't use my FB account anymore and it was disabled 3 weeks ago, it was strange since generally no use = no abuse.Then my friend's account was also disabled, we both released the inner workings of WA protocol along with API PoC a while ago (https://github.com/venomous0x/WhatsAPI) and it got popular, so we suspected that as the only relevant common thing. Today, Tarek...

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Re:WhatsApp is using your IMEI number as password on Thursday September 06, 2012 @06:12AM (#4483539)
A reference to https://github.com/venomous0x/WhatsAPI/ wouldn't hurt you, author.
Re:WhatsAPI: Python interface to WhatsApp Messenger on Tuesday May 29, 2012 @06:37AM (#4036821)
Code authors are coming from PHP background, that's why.