WhatsApp. The largest messaging platform on the planet is presented as a public danger to all those who choose to use this service in their daily life to communicate with various people. The accusations come from Pavel Durov, the founder of Telegram Messenger, but also of the VK social network in Russia, stating that the messaging application will never be safe for users, and will never protect their data as it should.
WhatsApp. The accusations come a few days after it was recognized by the Facebook company that spyware could be loaded into the phones of those who used the messaging application daily life. Everything was possible thanks to a vulnerability that exists in the WhatsApp application, and that an Israeli company exploited to infect people's phones just by means of a phone call without them knowing what was happening.
WhatsApp. The application is a DANGER for Users
WhatsApp. The problem is not a new one for the messaging application, and this is because last year it went through a similar problem, only that then it was about video calls, not phone calls for infection. Telegram's founder says that every time WhatsApp fixes a vulnerability, at least another one appears, and the company has intentionally left others open over time, even tricking users into encrypting their conversations while accessing their backups. .
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 your phone's entire data. Every time WhatsApp has to fix a critical vulnerability in their app, a new one seems to appear in its place. All of their security issues are conveniently suitable for surveillance, and look and work a lot like backdoors. n almost 6 years of its existence, Telegram didn't have any major data leak or security flaw of the kind WhatsApp demonstrates every few months. In the same 6 years, we disclosed exactly zero bytes of data to third-parties, while Facebook/WhatsApp has been sharing pretty much everything with everybody who claimed they worked for a government.
WhatsApp. Facebook's platform is accused of offering unlimited access to third-party companies to its users' data, while in other situations various security breaches do exactly the same thing. Telegram has not had problems of this kind in the 6 years of its existence, despite the pressure put by the Russian government, but WhatsApp is always broken, or always has problems, and all communications can be read by the authorities anyway.
WhatsApp. The reality is that the messaging application is not secure, and everyone knows that, but unfortunately nothing will be solved to bring things back to normal.