WhatsApp neglected known bug putting your privacy at risk for months
In a turn widely lauded by online privacy advocates, last April Facebook-owned WhatsApp announced it had implemented end-to-end encryption for all communication that goes through its platform, making it impossible for middlemen to intercept messages. As it turns out though, new findings suggest your conversations might not be as secure as you think. The Guardian reports security researcher Tobias Boelter from the University of California, Berkeley has discovered a backdoor in WhatsApp that leaves your private communication vulnerable to interceptions from third parties like Facebook and the authorities. “If WhatsApp is asked by a government agency to disclose its messaging records, it…
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