WhatsApp is the largest messaging platform in the world, with over 2 billion active users at the moment, but unfortunately many of them do not know about a very serious problem. Although WhatsApp brags about the fact that there is total encryption for the conversations made by people, there is still a very serious problem for the messages that are stored in the phones, and it is one that everyone should know about.
WhatsApp uses for the database with messages from phones an encryption system whose algorithm is reversible, so the encryption can be removed for reading the messages. The pictures and video clips are not encrypted anyway, only the messages, so anyone with bad intentions and wants to access them through the phone, can do so if they gain access to it for a few minutes, and WhatsApp does not talk about this very serious problem in the application .
WhatsApp: The Phone Problem People Don't Know About
WhatsApp it also does not encrypt the transfer of information through which backups are sent from phones to cloud platforms, which represents another very serious problem. Anyway, the backups are not encrypted now, so as soon as they arrive in iCloud or Google Drive, they can be accessed by anyone who gets access to them, and this makes a lot of people unhappy and WhatsApp thought that it would still be necessary to solve this big problem.
• The chat database is already encrypted now (excluding media), but the algorithm is reversible and it's not end-to-end encrypted.
• Local Android backups will be compatible with this feature.The chat DB and media will be encrypted using a password that only you know. https://t.co/WAliLUnF18
- WABetaInfo (@WABetaInfo) March 8, 2021
WhatsApp is secretly working on a new system to protect backups from phones that have the application installed, they will be encrypted and accessed only based on a password known only to the user. Including the local database with messages will be encrypted as soon as this new system that WhatsApp is working on will be launched, and thus two very big problems will be solved that many users have complained about, but which so far have remained unsolved .
WhatsApp he has not yet officially announced when exactly he intends to launch this new system for his phones, so we can only wait and see when everything will be ready.
