Why WhatsApp Will Never Be Secure
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The world seems to be shocked by the news that WhatsApp turned any phone into spyware. Everything on your phone – including photos, emails and texts – could be accessed by attackers just because you had WhatsApp installed [1].   This news didn’t surprise me, though. Last year WhatsApp had to admit they had a very similar issue – a single video call via WhatsApp was all a hacker needed to get access to all of your phone’s data [2].  Every time WhatsApp has to fix a critical vulnerability in their app, a new…

This is an article written by telegram’s founder and CEO Pavel Durov in 2019 on “Why whatsapp will never be secure”. Your thoughts?

  • crispy_kilt@feddit.de
    64·
    10 months ago

    they are as secure as signal’s (if not more

    Incorrect. They are trivially breakable as it is unauthenticated DH which is as good as no encryption at all.

    • Clot@lemm.eeOP
      38·
      10 months ago

      good as no encryption at all.

      0 data breaches till date.