Article 3MCH4 Reverse-engineering Whatsapp, to let us talk to our friends without Facebook's oversight

Reverse-engineering Whatsapp, to let us talk to our friends without Facebook's oversight

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Cory Doctorow
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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")

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