After the abolition of double blue tick, WhatsApp on Android also enables the encryption of messages, so they are decipherable only from those who exchange them. It continues in its efforts to reassure its members that are being targeted by hackers and governments especially in light of the scandal of Datagate.
The group, with over 600 million users of Facebook and purchased for the sum record $ 19 billion, said he does not want to help the authorities to decrypt messages, so fighting for the defense of the contents of one of the most popular forms of communication on smartphones.
Until now encrypted messages were reserved for people who had good technical knowledge but not for ordinary users. For now, the function will activate automatically for messages between mobile phones with Android operating system.
This type of encryption is different from that used by email providers like Google, Yahoo and Facebook. This fact enables groups to report to clear the data exchanged for commercial reasons or to hand them over to the authorities.
What it will do instead WhatsApp. Unlike Apple’s messaging system, iMessage, which encrypts the messages, but keeps them on their servers, WhatsApp also announced that all of the content exchanged by its users will be retained by Open Whisper Systems, a platform very much appreciated by activists pro- privacy including Edward Snowden and led by Moxie Marlinspike, a programmer much below the hacker community.
This shortcut does not allow the authorities to ask directly to the group controlled by Facebook to provide their data. Just a few days ago the social network is open to users of Tor, the system of anonymous communication on the Internet can access the platform with a web address that specifically allows you to do the cryptographic protections.
As far as WhatsApp, partner Open Whisper Systems announced that the protection of the messages is currently limited to single chat. The protection of group messages and media files will come later, “in addition to support for other platforms” such as iOS, Windows Phone and BlackBerry.
“Although we are still in the early stages of deployment, we believe that this is already the largest use of communication cripatata end-to-end in history, “explains on his blog Open Whisper Systems. For some time the co-founder of WhatsApp, Jan Joum, fights for the privacy of its users.
And last June, Brian Acton, co-founder of WhatsApp, stressed the independence of the service to Facebook and motto “No advertising, no games, no tricks.” It seems that the group wants to go that route. TagsArgomenti: Open Whisper Systemswhatsappsocial networkso
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