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WhatsApp Built Backdoor into its Encryption
WhatsApp, the Facebook-owned instant messaging app, features a security backdoor that allows the company to intercept and decrypt private messages sent through the platform, in flagrant contradiction of its previous stance that it employed end-to-end encryption. While WhatsApp uses encryption developed by Open Whisper Systems, the company behind end-to-end encryption…
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Facebook Charged With Misleading Over WhatsApp Merger
Facebook has been accused of deliberately misleading the European Commission (EC) over its merger with instant messaging app WhatsApp. Prior to the $22 billion merger, Facebook claimed that it would not be able to combine user data from the social networking site with the WhatsApp database, a claim that has…
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Has John McAfee Been Caught Lying About Hacking Again?
Yesterday, reports emerged that attention-seeking billionaire John McAfee had hacked the end-to-end encryption of popular messaging app WhatsApp. According to Cybersecurity Ventures, McAfee and four members of his team managed to intercept and read a WhatsApp message, sent between two Android phones in New York, from a secluded server base…
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WhatsApp Now Has Dedicated Apps for Mac and Windows
WhatsApp is undoubtedly one of the most popular cross-platform instant messaging clients for smartphones, and even though its first web app was released about 15 months back, plenty of users have expressed an interest in desktop apps for this particular service. Well, it looks like their prayers have finally been answered,…
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WhatsApp Turns on Encryption for All Platforms
In a move that is sure to rile the FBI, following the law enforcement agency’s feud with Apple over its refusal to unlock the iPhone of a suspect in the San Bernardino shooting, instant messaging app WhatsApp has added end-to-end encryption to every iteration of its software on every platform,…
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WhatsApp to End Support For Older Operating Systems
WhatsApp is a cross-platform messaging client which allows users to exchange text messages, images, video content, location details and audio files. As of February 2016, WhatsApp has a user base of up to one billion which makes it the most popular messaging application in the world! Back in February 2014,…
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WhatsApp Now Absolutely Free
WhatsApp has announced that its messaging app will now be available for free, dropping its previous yearly subscription fee, and adds that it will not be introducing third-party ads in order to make up the deficit. “[W]e’re happy to announce that WhatsApp will no longer charge subscription fees,” the blog…
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Here is Why You Might Have Trouble With WhatsApp Tonight
Today is one of the days where most calls are made and most messages are sent, and that goes for the whole world. Traditionally people have been using the normal phone connections and the SMS features of their phones. With the modern times come new possibilities and new services, and…
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Whatsapp Was Temporarily Banned in Brazil
One day after a court order in Sao Paulo banned the popular social messaging app for the entire nation of Brazil, WhatsApp is back in action across the country. In a decision that is likely bringing relief to the 93 million strong user base of WhatsApp in Brazil, Judge Xavier…
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French Prime Minister Denies Tor and Public Wi-Fi Ban Demand
Earlier this week, leaked documents revealed that French police were pressuring President Francois Hollande (pictured above) to ban the Tor browser and to block public Wi-Fi in a state of emergency. Hollande’s Prime Minister, however, has denied that any such demand was made, and added that the French government would…
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Telegram Links are Being Blocked in WhatsApp
Facebook has been accused in the past of blocking links to some of its rival companies, which is why it didn’t surprise us too much to find out that WhatsApp might be blocking links to Telegram. According to several users, it looks like any links pointing towards the privacy-orientated messaging…
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WhatsApp’s Promise of True Encryption Proven False
Last year, the Facebook-owned messaging app Whatsapp, in a move applauded by privacy advocates, announced that it would be introducing end-to-end encryption to protect user data from being intercepted in transit, viewable only by sender and receiver. While, strictly speaking, WhatsApp did as it promised – using a system designed…
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UK’s WhatsApp Ban Ruled Unlawful
UK Prime Minister David Cameron plans to ban any online messaging platform that uses end-to-end encryption, such that it would be unreadable by the country’s intelligence services, has been deemed “inconsistent with [European Union] law”. Messaging apps that use end-to-end encryption, such as the popular WhatsApp, Apple’s iMessage, and image…
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Here Is the Truth About WhatsApp’s Middle Finger and Vulcan Salute Emojis
There’s been a lot of talks about some middle finger and Vulcan salute emojis previously found in the desktop version of WhatsApp. Metro found the emojis packed away in WhatsApp’s bundled files, but thought they were a secret. However, The Next Web explained that they are not actually secret emojis,…
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David Cameron Plans to Ban WhatsApp
Since Edward Snowden spilled the beans on how government agencies spy on us, a lot of companies took precautions in preserving users’ privacy when using their apps. But it seems that will be made illegal and such apps look to be banned in the future, at least in the UK,…
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