Is WhatsApp really reliable?
Created in 2009, by Jan Koum and Brian Acton,
former engineers at Yahoo, WhatsApp is a mobile software that can send any type
of free messages (text, audio, photo and video) to phone contacts in the
application. It works thanks to the internet and today brings together more
than 450 million users around the world. The mobile users are rather young
people who find in this application a good alternative to sms.
WhatsApp is debating:
A
few months ago, Snapchat made the headlines. A
security vulnerability was detected, displaying the IDs and phone numbers of
more than five million users. Today is the turn
of WhatsApp to debate. The
application would be very easy to hack and the German site ComputerBild sounds
the alarm. An
Android application downloadable on the internet would intercept messages from
phones connected to the same Wi-Fi network. Thus,
public places, restaurants, cafes and other people with an internet connection
would be particularly easy to access. Thus,
whoever intercepts a conversation can read it without any difficulty. If
it is rare that information is received on a 3G connection, it is, however,
much more frequent than it is possible on a wi-fi connection. The
report is alarming: anyone can get information from anyone. Identity
theft, possibility of spying, everything becomes possible! The
enthusiasm that took this announcement had pushed designers to review the
application updates, which it seems, have not improved.
Reliable or not?
According to the founders of WhatsApp there is no "real problem" and
the facts are very exaggerated "We are informed reports about a security
breach, unfortunately these reports have not portrayed a portrait accurate and
are exaggerated. Normally, the data on the microSD card is not exposed. But, if
a user downloads malware or a virus, their phone will be in danger. The current
version of WhatsApp in Google Play has been updated to better protect our users
from malicious applications, "said one of the creators of the mobile
application.
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