Discovered a security flaw on WhatsApp: chat at-risk-of-intrusion – The Sun 24 Hours

The warning comes directly from the United States. And, more precisely, by Tobias Boelter, expert and researcher cryptography and security at the University of california, Berkeley, California: conversations on WhatsApp are not safe, there is a backdoor that undermines the security and that is next to government agencies, hackers and cyber spies. A backdoor created so that Facebook can enter into the possession of any chat. A vulnerability that, to look at the numbers of the application (over a billion users around the world) turn into a huge threat for the security and freedom.

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The introduction of "end to end"
let’s Go with order. On April 5, last year, Jan Koum, founder of WhatsApp, announced in an official post on the company blog, the introduction of encryption "end to end". An important step and waited for the instant messaging App most commonly used in the world. The degree of safety of the messages – at least in theory – was considerably raised, and in conversations of users appeared to a short yellow-in which WhatsApp is informed of the new encryption. “Henceforth,” he wrote Koum in his post – each message, photos, videos, and voice messages sent will be encrypted by default, if the sender and the receiver use both the latest version of our application. Also the group chat, and voice calls will be encrypted”. A key step for the future of WhatsApp, a company belonging to the giant Facebook Inc. and maybe, this is often in the eye of the storm in the field of data security. Next, in additio n, applications such as Telegram were running fast even with encryptions and more massive. The introduction of "end to end" was supposed to be the solution. And in some ways I was, at least up to today.

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The backdoor, and the risk of privacy
a backdoor is a secondary access to into a system. In computer science the backdoors are vulnerabilities used to bypass the security systems. According to Tobias Boelter on the backdoor found in the code of WhatsApp, allows Facebook to intercept and read the messages that are exchanged by users on WhatsApp, of course, who have not given their consent. A serious fact, that becomes very serious because the same backdoor is the door of access for government agencies, hackers and snoops. You wait for an official version of WhatsApp, meanwhile, comes out with broken bones.

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