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mikeash on Sept 14, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: WhatsApp is broken, really broken

Armed with this blog post and a laptop, you could start spying on IM traffic in your local coffee shop in five minutes. I don't know where you'd even begin with spying on SMS, but I bet that in the least it requires substantially more specialized equipment.

ZoFreX on Sept 16, 2012 [–]

Yeah, it requires specialized equipment, but that's really the biggest barrier. From a protocol standpoint it isn't really any better.

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