ONU made an unprecedented decision about WhatsApp well in advance the hack that compromised the iPhone X of Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, and this in the conditions in which Apple phones are considered to be very safe. Well, considering that this is no longer valid for a long time, the UN has decided since June 2019 that its high-ranking employees will be prohibited from using the WhatsApp application in the phones received from the organization.
ONU made the decision to ban WhatsApp long before this scandal started, so those there had reliable information that the platform is to be avoided in terms of all communications between people. The decision taken by the UN has been kept hidden until now, but maybe it should have been disclosed so that people know that WhatsApp should be avoided because it puts their phones in a completely unnecessary danger now.
UN: UNPRECEDENTED Decision Regarding WhatsApp Messenger
ONU is one of the most important organizations on this planet, and if the use of WhatsApp by employees was banned there, then the rest of the institutions from various governments around the globe should carefully analyze the situation. If UN employees are not safe when they use WhatsApp, then why would employees of armies, intelligence services, or even police in various areas around the world be safe, since the application is vulnerable?
"United Nations officials do not use WhatsApp to communicate because it is 'not accepted as a secure mechanism,'" a spokesperson said. Senior UN officials have been instructed not to use WhatsApp, it is not accepted as a secure mechanism. He later added that the directive not to use WhatsApp was given to UN officials in June last year."
ONU surprised the whole world with what was announced now, even if their decision is a very old one, in reality it has an extremely large impact, and it could remove WhatsApp from many other institutions and organizations. WhatsApp said that its application is safe, and that there are no software applications without problems, but when the UN gives up on your application, you can be sure that many other people will, and will look more carefully at the whole situation.
ONU they could also be banned from using Facebook Messenger, not just WhatsApp, or even other messaging platforms, but everything is kept hidden, probably, so as not to affect their image.
