Reverse-engineering Whatsapp, to let us talk to our friends without Facebook's oversight
by Cory Doctorow from on (#3MCH4)
The lifecycle of technology is fundamentally parasitic: successful technologies are ones that colonize their predecessors, devour them, and burst out of their limiting skins to and grow into new, more ambitious tools -- until they, too, are colonized by a more-evolved successor. (more")