Actually we see attempts to extend libpurple with many recent protocols. For instance telegram works on pidgin AFAIK, and I could recently see se a Tox plugin.<p>Clearly we cannot play a fair game with the closed whatsapp, but hacking cannot be stopped or forbidden.<p>After all, it was always like that. If you go back of 10 years al &quot;regular people&quot; had MSN and similar stuff, and we were IRCing. As a hacker, you migth feel sad, and think openness lost the war. IMHO the only difference is that nowadays we have much more &quot;regular people&quot; than before. They were simply sms-ing before they could access whatsapp.