By david drexler – Flickr, CC BY 2.0, Link Back in August, Reuters reported on a “secret legal fight” between the FBI and Facebook about wiretapping Messenger calls. The Verge as they found our old post about reverse-engineering Messenger from 2015 and had a number of follow-up questions on it for a Messenger wiretapping article they ran. Technical […]
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Facetime doesn’t face WebRTC
This is the next decode and analysis in Philipp Hancke’s Blackbox Exploration series conducted by &yet in collaboration with Google. Please see our previous posts covering WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger for more details on these services and this series. {“editor”: “chad hart“} FaceTime is Apple’s answer to video chat, coming preinstalled on all modern iPhones and iPads. It […]
How does Hangouts use WebRTC? webrtc-internals analysis
Update: Philipp continues to reverse engineer Hangouts using chrome://webrtc-internals. Please see the bottom section for new analysis he just put together in the past couple of days based on Chrome 38. As initiators and major drivers of WebRTC, Google was often given a hard time for not supporting WebRTC in its core collaboration product. This […]
WebRTC MUST implement DTLS-SRTP but… MUST NOT implement SDES?
As I anticipated in my post on WebRTC standardization, the IETF 87th meeting took place last week in Berlin, Germany. One of the agenda items for WebRTC was whether SDES should be part (and how) of WebRTC. According to the IETF drafts, any WebRTC compliant implementation must support the RTP/SAVPF profile which builds on top of […]