2024-02-26 01:10:24
Changes are coming to the messaging platform. Photo: AFP
WhatsApp will allow users to communicate with people on third-party platforms, such as Telegram o Signalwithout them having an account in Meta.
WhatsApp’s engineering director, Dick Brouwer, has reported, in an interview with Wiredwho hope to implement the interoperability with other platforms in your messaging servicewhich means a historical change in the application.
The manager has commented that his main objective is to offer this interoperability with third parties “and at the same time preserve the privacy, security and integrity of WhatsApp”while acknowledging that the platform is “quite happy” with what they have achieved with this adaptation.
What does the historic change in WhatsApp mean?
Interoperability in both WhatsApp and Messenger It will initially focus on text and voice messaging and sending images, videos and files through chats with an interlocutor. Later it is planned that group calls and chats can be made.
Users will be able to choose whether or not they want to use the new interoperability.
- By deciding to try it, the user will see messages from other applications in a separate section at the top of the inbox, which will be called “third-party chats.”
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This differentiation between WhatsApp and services like Signal or Telegram is due to the fact that “these networks are very different” from the first and because the same level of service cannot be offered. Privacy & Security that the one developed by Meta already offers.
The same WhatsApp architecture will continue to be used
WhatsApp’s engineering director, Dick Brouwer, has emphasized the infrastructure with which they hope to promote communication between platforms, indicating that, To send messages, third-party applications will need to encrypt the content using the Signal protocol and then compacting it into XML files.
In this way, he has admitted “that the best way to offer this approach is through a solution based on WhatsApp’s existing client-server architecture”so that services such as Signal or Telegram connect directly to your infrastructure to send and receive messages from users of the Meta application.
Therefore, he has stressed that, by maintaining the system with which WhatsApp currently works to promote interoperability, it reduces the possibility that user information is exposed to different servers.
The manager also recognized that interoperability will make it difficult to add new functionalities because it is an open and not closed networkas WhatsApp already works.
Why is WhatsApp implementing these changes?
It is worth mentioning that the changes that are coming to the popular messaging service are due to the fact that the company seeks to adjust to what is required by the Digital Markets Act (DMA), which establishes new rules for large technological giants, considered as “gatekeepers” or access guardians, for which they must assume a series of obligations and prohibitions that guarantee fair competition in the digital sector.
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