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I mainly post on my blog at https://ar.al  (RSS: https://ar.al/index.xml ) and interact on my Mastodon https://mastodon.ar.al . Please follow me there.

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    Aral Balkan‏ @aral 20 Feb 2014

    Buying WhatsApp: $16B Additional stock for employees: $3B Getting to evesdrop on 450 million people’s private conversations: priceless.

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      2. Jeroen Vos‏ @CabezaDelZorro 20 Feb 2014
        Replying to @aral

        @aral @shanselman getting to push ad's to 450 million mobile phones: priceless

        1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
      3. Aral Balkan‏ @aral 20 Feb 2014
        Replying to @CabezaDelZorro

        @CabezaDelZorro @shanselman I thought I said the same thing :) Ads/monetising data/corporate surveillance; pick your favourite synonym.

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      2. Anders Stensiö‏ @ste1and 20 Feb 2014
        Replying to @aral

        @aral @shanselman Where is the open P2P service replacing SMS without eavesdropping?

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      3. Aral Balkan‏ @aral 20 Feb 2014
        Replying to @ste1and

        @ste1and There are a number of projects underway but it remains to be seen if the user experience can compete. +@shanselman

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      2. @rem‏ @rem 20 Feb 2014
        Replying to @aral

        @aral I appreciate you’re just making that (ie. Being a play on Visa cards) but also IIRC all UK phone calls are evesdrop’ped too.

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      3. Aral Balkan‏ @aral 20 Feb 2014
        Replying to @rem

        @rem Indeed (MasterCard) and yet because one thing is wrong does not make another thing not wrong.

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      2. Luuk‏ @tostitovenaar 20 Feb 2014
        Replying to @aral

        @aral @DonnyWals sure, like that wasn’t happening already.

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      3. Aral Balkan‏ @aral 20 Feb 2014
        Replying to @tostitovenaar

        @tostitovenaar @DonnyWals Of course they may have been but their stated approach/business model were different (time-based freemium vs free)

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      2. Chase‏ @DeviaVir 20 Feb 2014
        Replying to @aral

        @aral Good luck eavesdropping on 450 million conversations... They'll have enough trouble keeping the service up as is :)

        1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
      3. Aral Balkan‏ @aral 20 Feb 2014
        Replying to @DeviaVir

        @DeviaVir Algorithms have no trouble scaling.

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      2. Josh Schoenwald‏ @jschoenwald 20 Feb 2014
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        @aral There is no hyperbole in that statement. None at all.

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      3. Aral Balkan‏ @aral 20 Feb 2014
        Replying to @jschoenwald

        @jschoenwald Ironically, there isn’t, you’re right.

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      2. daanesh‏ @daanesh 20 Feb 2014
        Replying to @aral

        “@aral:Buying WhatsApp:$16B Additional stock for employees:$3B Getting to evesdrop on 450 million people’s private conversation: priceless.”

        1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
      3. Aral Balkan‏ @aral 20 Feb 2014
        Replying to @daanesh

        @daanesh ‘conversations’ — your retweet lost the ‘s’, making it grammatically incorrect and not what I tweeted :)

        1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
      4. daanesh‏ @daanesh 20 Feb 2014
        Replying to @aral

        @aral Was too long as is - did the best I could given the character count 😉

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      2. Jeff Porter‏ @Wordius 20 Feb 2014
        Replying to @aral

        @aral Make that 449,999,999 #deletedwhatsapp

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      2. David Walter‏ @David_Walter_6 20 Feb 2014
        Replying to @simonperry

        @simonperry @aral @WhatsApp @Documentally I uninstalled WA immediately. Buy bye ;-)

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      3. Christian Payne‏Verified account @Documentally 20 Feb 2014
        Replying to @David_Walter_6

        @david02292590 @simonperry @aral I deleted and have installed @MyEnigma_app Need to see who owns them but looks promising.

        1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
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