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To comply with DMA, WhatsApp and Messenger will become interoperable via Signal protocol (techcrunch.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Does this mean third party apps will be able to interact with whatsapp?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

only when the service specifically requests it and agrees to Whatsapp's terms.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Would this mean I could finally ditch what's app and use only Signal?

[–] [email protected] 54 points 1 year ago (8 children)

No, Signal announced they won’t implement interoperable messaging.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (5 children)

kind of dumb they could get huge market share

[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, this worked so well for XMPP when everybody federated with Gmail chat.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Well, it worked out for Google when it federated with Jabber, who first open sourced XMPP.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 year ago (3 children)

It's not. There is no privacy if you send your message to Whatsapp servers.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (12 children)

Would it not be E2EE? Isn't that one of the reasons for using the Signal protocol?

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

Not if signal doesn’t want to support WhatsApp, and I don’t think they’re going to unfortunately :(

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Is there a reason this requirement doesn't apply to iMessage as well?

[–] [email protected] 89 points 1 year ago (14 children)

Please Signal, use this opportunity. I really want to be on Signal AAAAH

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 year ago (21 children)

Why not convince people to use Signal as well? Even my family has a group chat on Signal. Of course, it's a slow move with most people sticking to non-open chats. But it's worth the effort I would say.

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[–] [email protected] 76 points 1 year ago

They have already announced that they will not be interoperable with insecure messaging apps unfortunately.

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