Comment on Whatsapp has begun working on support for third party chats (Telegram/Signal)
couragethebravedog@lemmy.world 9 months ago
I do not trust Whatsapp to provide the security of a signal conversation. Who wants signal and WhatsApp to talk to each other ?
People who use WhatsApp but have friends who want to use signal and vice versa.
Your average person really does not care about this stuff,they just want something easy and familiar. This is good for people who care enough to use signal but still want to actually chat to people.
I use Signal and refuse WhatsApp. However, my karate club uses Messenger to communicate, for example if you can’t show up one night.
My shihan asked if I could communicate with him over WhatsApp, which I declined. But I like the idea of being able to text him that I can’t show up, or if there are some changes needed to our website. Things which aren’t exactly sensitive.
It indeed is not a good thing, because Signal might not do shit with your data, but WhatsApp might. Your conversation is mirrored to the WhatsApp user afterall. Though It would be nice if it was an optional and “dangerous” option to enable in the advanced options section. Because I’d rather use Signal’s app over using WhatsApp if I am not going to succeed in getting others to jlin Signal at the very least.
Just… Don’t put stuff in the WhatsApp chat that you wouldn’t like shared… I don’t see how it’s bad, it’s not like all your convos are being mirrored and it’s something you never have to use if you choose not to, but it’s be nice to be able to talk to those people who will never migrate away that I’ve completely lost contact with outside of Facebook since leaving WhatsApp.
Yeah I guess that would be an option. I can just send them sensitive stuff over email with encryption.
I saw your other reply, I think having the cross platform connection could help solve the issues where they just deleted it a few days later. Now you can convince them to switch because they can still communicate.
If it is sensitive data I would not use email.
I might be wrong, but I don’t think Whatsapp would try to implement its own version of Telegram’s, Signal’s and every other protocol to “talk” to all of these other apps. I bet they will provide an API to interoperate with Whatsapp that these other clients may (or may not) choose to implement, in order to send their messages to Whatsapp users.
Me…if I am 100% aware the other end is using whatsapp. Then I know what’s what.
smileyhead@discuss.tchncs.de 9 months ago
To convert yourself out of WhatsApp, then your friend, then your other friend. Instead od doing it all at once.