You might remember that Facebook acquired WhatsApp for $16 billion on February 19 2014, its largest acquisition to date.

On January 13th 2017, the Guardian published an article alleging the presence of a security backdoor in the messaging platform, which would allow Facebook and government agencies to snoop on users messages.

WhatsApp responded with a statement that the company “does not give governments a ‘backdoor’ into its systems” and would fight any government request to create a backdoor.

The Verge also claims the Guardian piece describes an advanced but plausible attack that WhatsApp encryption can’t stop. An attacker could actually get access to a WhatsApp server, forcibly reset the keys used to encrypt messages and intercept any further messages sent between parties.

Thankfully, there is no known attacker at the moment that has the level of skill to pull it off. Frederic Jacobs, who was an iOS developer at Open Whisper Systems — the company behind the technology WhatsApp’s uses for encryption — has dismissed the threat as nothing new.

Apparently, the backdoor described by the Guardian is a feature ‘working as intended’. It would require significant collaboration with Facebook to be able to snoop on and intercept someones encrypted messages.

However with all the stated facts that have been laid down, it appears there is actually a hidden plan to have a backdoor and it is possible for any individual with good knowledge of what he/she is doing to access encrypted end-to-end messages, even if Facebook wouldn’t do that

This feature should either be improved on, to reduce vulnerability, or removed entirely to avoid embarrassment and loss of users in the long run.



http://iqvibes.com/could-this-newly-discovered-whatsapp-feature-enable-anyone-to-spy-on-you/

If that's the case, people should start chatting in "tongues" to spiritually encrypt their chats.

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Spy on you that you are president of a first world nation abi

Ok

i blame EDIOTIC Buhari

Who whatsapp epp

Who whatsapp epp..... Idgaf about whatsapp

I don't understand what I just read

matrix199:
If that's the case, people should start chatting in "tongues" to spiritually encrypt their chats.

kikikikiki... Wc one is chatting in tongues?

abegi.
do we have public wifi
do we af steady light
abegi.
all those dagbo/system reformat 1005 naira sortware engineers we have here in naija.
abegi

e go jus crash like mmm.
e nor fit work abegi

Hunnnm ok ooo

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ArabMopol:
i blame EDIOTIC Buhari

Continue......

daneni1:

Continue......

exactly

The moment Facebook acquired them, I knew issues would start surfacing. Whats the use of encrypting messages then if someone has a backdoor access.?

I hv no secrets to hide...so i dont care if some1 spys on me or whatever

what is the newly discovered feature in in this your writeup. I can't see any

matrix199:
If that's the case, people should start chatting in "tongues" to spiritually encrypt their chats.

this is Why bbm is the best. no last seen that causes jealousy, bbm encryption has never Being hacked And can't be hacked. rim did a Good job that's Why some world leaders Are using BlackBerry Phone for their chatting. The only advantage whatsapp has is The cross platform of a thing aside That I pick bbm anyday anytime to whatsapp

any tech savvy person that believes that Facebook does not give access to the government is just outright dumb

im glad i didnt type anything

hmm

Wish some one will jst open a forum like nairaland that will look like facebook,,,,I will just install everything that has to do with Facebook!!!!!all this white people wa go da there country da make money for person head!

Nothing is hidden under digital age.

Now I see some people saying that we can talk in tongues.... I can now realize that Nigerians are illiterates and don't realise the usefulness and delicacy of social networks. WhatsApp has over a billion users and just because you use it to toast ladies and get bet9ja games doesn't mean lots of sensitive information are not passing on through it. If you have access to these servers and see the messages sent through them... You'll wish we never have this kind of things....

Wish some one will jst open a forum like nairaland that will look like facebook,,,,I will just uninstall everything that has to do with Facebook!!!!!all this white people wa go da there country da make money for person head!