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17 mentions on Hacker News by 13 people: 4 stories, 13 comments · first 2013-12-16 · latest 2023-01-23

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  1. It looks like they're getting users banned [0] for using alternative clients. [0] https://github.com/tgalal/yowsup/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aop...
    comment by btdmaster · 2023-01-23 · in Expanding Features for End-to-End Encryption on Messenger
  2. …code at all. FB messenger doesn't yet have e2e encryption, so there hasn't yet been any need. [1]: https://github.com/tgalal/yowsup
    comment by londons_explore · 2023-01-23 · in Expanding Features for End-to-End Encryption on Messenger
  3. For example: https://github.com/tgalal/yowsup The code is a bit nightmarish, but it's hackable to do whatever you like. Whatsapp will ban you if they detect you using it, so make sure to update the client version numbers etc, and use a…
    comment by londons_explore · 2020-02-03 · in How to decrypt WhatsApp end-to-end media files
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    Yowsup – last WhatsApp (unofficial) Linux client
    story by aruggirello · 2019-08-03 · 0 comments
  5. Hardcoded device maybe: https://github.com/tgalal/yowsup/blob/master/yowsup/env/env_...
    comment by gsich · 2019-01-14 · in Show HN: Whapp-irc – A simple WhatsApp IRC gateway
  6. …get all the data because that's all they get (the service is gratis after all). That and spam. [1]: https://github.com/tgalal/yowsup [2]: http://google.com/search?q=yowsup+name+ban
    comment by est31 · 2019-01-13 · in Show HN: Whapp-irc – A simple WhatsApp IRC gateway
  7. There's also a Python library: https://github.com/tgalal/yowsup
    comment by severine · 2018-04-09 · in Reverse Engineering WhatsApp Web
  8. it still is https://github.com/tgalal/yowsup
    comment by gsich · 2018-02-10 · in Postmortem of Service Outage at 3.4M Concurrent Users
  9. You don't need an emulator. https://github.com/tgalal/yowsup
    comment by gsich · 2018-01-12 · in Browserling goes viral with cheap phone users trying to use WhatsApp
  10. …my own Tracking app over 2 years ago. I still have the code and database laying around. I was using https://github.com/tgalal/yowsup back then. Back then you could even see when people requested your online-status. Meaning you could see…
    comment by dedmen · 2017-10-11 · in Tracking friends and strangers using WhatsApp
  11. Well there is https://github.com/tgalal/yowsup/ but i would not recommend using it
    comment by mikkelam · 2017-07-17 · in Show HN: Eul – a lightweight desktop client for Skype, Slack, Gmail, and more
  12. Have you looked at how https://github.com/tgalal/yowsup get around this?
    comment by festaans · 2017-03-21 · in WhatsApp web api
  13. Lots of people. https://github.com/tgalal/yowsup for example
    comment by ryanlol · 2016-04-19 · in Viber adds end-to-end encryption
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    A WhatsApp client in Python
    story by ghh · 2015-10-21 · 0 comments
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    WhatsApp Unofficial API Back on GitHub
    story by amjd · 2014-04-01 · 0 comments
  16. I own 3 of the affected repos: Yowsup https://github.com/tgalal/yowsup MIT License It is a library that implements WhatsApp's protocol. It is built on community effort of reverse engineering WhatsApp's protocol. I created this in first…
    comment by tgalal · 2014-02-21 · in WhatsApp issued takedown against alternative clients a week before acquisition
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    Unofficial WhatsApp API
    story by amjd · 2013-12-16 · 32 comments