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NEW: WhatsApp will soon make it possible to chat with people who use other messaging apps. It’s revealed some more details on how that will work.

— Apps will need to sign an agreement with Meta, then connect to its servers.

— Meta wants people to use the Signal Protocol, but also says other encryption protocols can be used if they can meet WhatsApp’s standards

— WhatsApp has been testing with Matrix in recent months, although nothing is agreed yet. Swiss app Threema says it won’t become interoperable

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    9 months ago

    So if Meta <-> Signal interoperability gets implemented and I have a hypothetical group chat with 5 Signal users and 1 WhatsApp/Messenger user, all the messages would be sent to Meta? I don’t like it

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      9 months ago

      Simple solution to that is not to add people. Am assuming should that happen Signal will add highlight of sorts to warn about users from other networks.

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        9 months ago

        How do I know that WhatsApp isn’t performing client-side scanning of messages? Meta has been doing it before, on Messenger