WhatsApp is by far the most popular messaging platform on the entire planet, but few people really know what is hidden in the applications for iPhone and Android phones at the moment. According to the founder of the Telegram application, WhatsApp is just a tool that the intelligence agencies of various governments around the world use to spy on the people they are interested in, without them knowing it.
WhatsApp has these very harsh accusations formulated by the Telegram founder very shortly after a new, extremely serious vulnerability was revealed, allowing remote control of a phone. The vulnerability confirmed by WhatsApp also offered access to messages received and sent by users, to applications and photos, all without the victims knowing what was happening on their phones.
WhatsApp accused of being a spying tool for intelligence agencies
WhatsApp is described by the founder of Telegram as a "Trojan horse" that reaches people's phones only to facilitate access to the messages and pictures they have stored in the devices, but also that Facebook does this intentionally. He implies that Facebook intentionally leaves open some vulnerabilities in its platform, or in WhatsApp, so that intelligence agencies can access data and not "bother" us.
"Facebook was part of surveillance programs long before it acquired WhatsApp. It is naive to think that the company would change its policies after the acquisition. We can be sure that such a serious vulnerability has definitely been exploited."
WhatsApp has said that its users were not attacked by any hack exploiting the latest vulnerability, but if the data were really encrypted, the company would have no way of knowing if any person was affected. The founder of Telegram claims that since WhatsApp can verify this, it is clear that the platform does not encrypt everything, as it says, and that it can intercept or read the content of messages that are transmitted through its servers.
WhatsApp has always said that its platform is encrypted and secure, but in reality it has never managed to provide any security for its claims, but only to try to fool the world with something that no one believed anyway.
