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This thread thus far has a ton of comments from people who haven't bothered to actually read anything about how WhatsApp works, or how the Signal protocol works.

It would make for a better comment thread if everyone did that prior to expressing an opinion.

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This kind of snide comment gets upvoted because everyone sees it as a way of looking down on the 'other comments'.

If you have something specific to say to each of the people who "didn't read the spec" then please respond to those people with that, instead of making passive aggressive commentary and making us assume the worst in everyone else in the comments.

It's completely appropriate to ask the HN community to do more work before posting, instead of posting opinions that haven't been checked against reality. The mods use this same approach when advising us to act better: a single top-level comment, discussing a common misbehavior and asking for it to stop. We should aspire to be a better community, but individually chastising tens of comments for posting unfounded and repetitive comments would pollute the discussion with needless repetition of the same core point.

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