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The EU proposal to scan all your WhatsApp chats is back on the agenda (www.techradar.com)

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

They are called gateways https://sr.ht/~nicoco/slidge/ https://biboumi.louiz.org/

You can do basically everything except multiuser encrypted calls (we use Mumble for this anyhow). But even then Jitsi (& proprietary Zoom & WhatsApp) are built atop XMPP for the backbone of their protocol using XMPP to negotiate connections before handing off for calls.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Thanks, useful information.