In response to the New York Times' report, Facebook released a statement:
In addition, WhatsApp is the only service of the three to use end-to-end encryption by default. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg wants the other two apps to support end-to-end encryption. Instagram and Messenger also require users to provide some personal data as part of the setting up process. This is likely to be a huge technical challenge as WhatsApp does not store messages and maintains minimal user data. Thousands of Facebook employees are said to be recruited to reconfigure how WhatsApp, Instagram and Messenger function at the most basic levels. The services will continue to function as separate apps, but Facebook wants to unify their underlying technical infrastructure. I've seen on other efforts like Yowsup that they don't take particularly kindly to modification or reverse engineering, and are not afraid of simply permanently banning your number, so caution is advised.Facebook to merge WhatsApp, Instagram and Messengerįacebook is planning to enable cross-messaging for WhatsApp, Instagram and Messenger.Īccording to the New York Times, sources claim the integration is still in the early stages and Facebook plans to complete the integration by end of the year or early 2020.
#WHATSAPP MESSENGER THEVERGE CODE#
I suspect that modifying their code in any way violates their ToS, so a solution which requires no modification to the official application code might be necessary. If I make any more progress I'll write it up somewhere. It also makes use of some undocumented (or at least not publicly documented) features, like fetching some built-in javascript libraries from the device, and a websocket server running on localhost to do some secret token stuff These seem to be documented, albeit archived, on the Mozilla Developer Network site. The app makes use of a few old Firefox OS APIs like `navigator.mozSettings`, so these would need to be re-implemented or polyfilled in some way. Patched again to enable error logging to the browser console, which seems to be off by default.
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I've loaded it up in a web browser, and patched out the obvious 'Expired app' version check so it'll at least try to load. It's also minified and seems to be deliberately obfuscated as well, so reading the source is a little hard-going. I've unzipped all the zips, and found that it's basically a website, as expected for an OS forked from Firefox OS. I've got an old copy from the jbjio store anyway.
#WHATSAPP MESSENGER THEVERGE DOWNLOAD#
I've failed to find a download from the official kaios store and also failed to get the KaiOS store to run in the official simulator. I've struggled to get an up-to-date copy of the app. I started trying to coax it into running on my laptop (PBP). The KaiOS version is particularly attractive as it's designed for low-spec feature phones, which means if it runs at all on pinephone it should run very smooth. WhatsApp is unfortunately the messenger of choice with a lot of my friends and family, many of whom I would struggle to move over to telegram or signal, so not having WhatsApp is blocking me from even trying out my pinephone as a daily driver.
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