Two weeks ago Philipp Hancke, lead WebRTC developer of Talky and part of the &yet‘s WebRTC consulting team, started a series of posts about detailed examinations he is doing on several major VoIP deployments to see if and how they may be using WebRTC. Please see that post on WhatsApp for some background on the series and below for another great analysis – this time on Facebook Messenger. {“editor”: “chad hart“}
Last week, Facebook announced support for video chats in their Messenger app. Given that Messenger claims to account for 10% of global mobile VoIP traffic, this made in a very interesting target for further investigation. As part of the series of deconstructions, the full analysis (another fifteen pages, using the full range of analysis techniques demonstrated earlier) is available for download here, including the wireshark dumps.
