Facebook Messenger is the thing where everything is minded and you'll get all the AI bots etc.
WhatsApp instead is their chat app for users how don't like Facebook. WhatsApp has way more users than Facebook Messengers. And now they have the PR and even don't have to deal with wiretapping requests anymore.
Once your number had e2e support0, you can't switch to a phone without e2e. Notifications on key changes are switched off by default, but I hope they still warn you in the chat history. We'll see.
You could backup the key like every other account password, too. Save it in your password manager, print it. Whatever. This isn't really an argument.
When Android backups Wifi passwords, those are encrypted with your Google password that Google has only a hash of. Okay, it's easily interceptable the next time you login and Google has an warrant. But still an option.
No. Actually, I would say fake encryption is even dangerous. WhatsApp might not always run end-to-end encryption for compatibility issues, there isn't even a visual indication for encrypted connections, there is no way to verify keys (if at all, they are verified by WhatsApp servers), so leaving a lot of room for all kind of man-in-the-middle attacks. The encryption itself isn't documented, and at the same time WhatsApp had added an option for (likely insecure) cloud backups. Yes, WhatsApp does fake security. But people believe it's secure. Now more than ever.
But those cases are only saying that companies can't comply to disclosure requests. That doesn't say if the encryption itself is weak or if the user has to completely trust that company. Just like the Apple case, where a 4-6 digit PIN is basically protected by Apple's secret firmware and its signing infrastructure.
There is nothing worse than a messenger that is commonly called secure but actually isn't (like the current implementation at WhatsApp). Cryptocat already had a massive disaster related to this problematic. Known as the chat program for activists in danger, it had a mathematical bug that made it nearly as weak as cleartext. Another one: As long as people aren't always explicitly using Secure Chats, Telegram isn't more secure than WhatsApp and doesn't use any end-to-end encryption. Still hyped for its security. While secure clients can definitely exist, most of the famous everyday solutions are just FUD and bullshit.
In my case using SMS for 2FA only works within their new interface. Whenever an online shop is redirecting to PayPal, it's the old login page (and doesn't notice when already logged in on PayPal), so I basically never receive 2FA codes in that step.
Not sure if just broken or they are using a different SMS gateway that has a problem with my country. It also doesn't really help that 2FA is still only known as hardware tokens within their documentation. It doesn't raise any trust for the PayPal website either.
Also keep in mind they tested all extensions with their default filter lists configuration while it reads like EasyList and EasyPrivacy would be efficient enough. As applying filter rules is basically the main work of those extensions and most extensions can use the same lists, they should have set all to the same lists where possible.
While it's also about liability, there seem to be people deadly allergic to even small amounts of e.g. nuts. Those notices are shown when production machines are also shared used for other products and cleaning is never completely safe.
I like the integrated window control buttons and it has a nicer name than this project. Besides from that both are good wrappers for web.whatsapp.com and have native notifications, notification counter etc.
Having ads means you're acting commercially which is a very bad idea if you already in a semi-legal area. Besides from that it's far away from their initially spread ideology to make a lot of money or show porn ads. I mean TPB users always argue with not wanna seeing ads on DVDs and being enforced to anything and then their website is just unusable without ad blocker.
While the effort is remarkable, the web isn't fixed and this isn't responsive. Just wondering what happens if someone hasn't that font installed or the browser rendering is still different and everything is off then. At least the whole website isn't an image file ...
For me it's rather an expression of ignoring that websites are always slightly differently displayed than a good solution.
Hilarious if you see how Amazon still doesn't care about hyphenation on their Kindle platforms. It's an easy job, e.g. the algorithm used by LaTeX is free to use and with Amazon's size they might even build a good database to handle all exceptions. If you consider that this all could be precompiled, it doesn't even matter that a first-gen Kindle has a lousy CPU.
What a joke, I hate those biased generalized articles.
> 1. Early-stage startup teams cannot afford to handle the hardware fragmentation that plagues Android.
You have a full stack of iOS devices, too, maybe even more expensive. It's a point if you develop quite near hardware features or want to do pixel-perfect designs without auto-layout, but that's difficult for iOS, too, these days. A messenger app is really not that device specific.
> 2. Study after study demonstrates iOS users are not only growing in key geographies, but are more valuable customers.
If it's about hype and money, you might be right, but if you just need users with a much more social diversity, Android is likely on your side.
> 3. iPhone 5c and future low cost models will likely steal share from Android relative to yesterday.
Dunno. You say "likely", too, so why is that even considered as a top 3 argument?
Nevertheless, the most important point here is: It's a messenger. For teams. You don't want split between iOS and Android devices and Talko itself sees this as negative point:
> (The corporate beta testers I spoke with sighed wistfully when reporting that a couple of team members could not participate because they didn’t use iPhones.) “We can’t build a business on this until we have all of the above,” says Ozzie, who wanted to make sure his engineers aced the iPhone first; [...]
iMessage's strength is its SMS fallback (still, who wants to send expensive text messages these days), but Facebook, WhatsApp etc. are generally much more used.
> Piping programs into each other is okay, but once you start bundling it's all up in the air.
How does bundling mean combining it into an _executable_ file? Sure, this could be the case for an installer, but that one could also just download/copy the files.
What's exactly the problem? Could be fixed by either getting the latest package upgrades from you favorite distro or compile an old version yourself with a specific flag set as mentioned in the security report. Or are you behind some third-party SSL proxy that doesn't react that fast?
While the chat function is maybe more of a tech demo, it could be used in places with bad network coverage or at big events where the network is gone down for whatever reason. Also interesting for geolocated services, because you don't have to send your position to a central entity, so interesting for some privacy concepts.
WhatsApp instead is their chat app for users how don't like Facebook. WhatsApp has way more users than Facebook Messengers. And now they have the PR and even don't have to deal with wiretapping requests anymore.