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01-21-2017, 12:01 PM
This article about WhatsApp made security experts furious
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Last week, The Guardian published a bombshell "exclusive" report (http://mashable.com/2017/01/13/whatsapp-security-vulnerability-reported/) claiming to reveal disturbing information about a "backdoor" into WhatsApp's encrypted messaging platform. According to the story, the vulnerability could potentially expose the service's user base of over a billion to "s**oping" by prying eyes.*
SEE ALSO: Sad! Trump reportedly forced to give up the phone he tweets with (http://mashable.com/2017/01/20/trump-loses-android-phone/)
The article was met with near-immediate backlash from information security experts and cryptologists, who took to Twitter (https://twitter.com/zackwhittaker/status/819885489297784833) to voice their complaints. Many alleged the article misrepresented (https://twitter.com/ScepticGeek/status/819889764409044992) a feature of the encryption WhatsApp's parent company, Facebook, called "expected behavior."* Read more... (http://mashable.com/2017/01/20/experts-demand-guardian-retract-whatsapp-article/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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Last week, The Guardian published a bombshell "exclusive" report (http://mashable.com/2017/01/13/whatsapp-security-vulnerability-reported/) claiming to reveal disturbing information about a "backdoor" into WhatsApp's encrypted messaging platform. According to the story, the vulnerability could potentially expose the service's user base of over a billion to "s**oping" by prying eyes.*
SEE ALSO: Sad! Trump reportedly forced to give up the phone he tweets with (http://mashable.com/2017/01/20/trump-loses-android-phone/)
The article was met with near-immediate backlash from information security experts and cryptologists, who took to Twitter (https://twitter.com/zackwhittaker/status/819885489297784833) to voice their complaints. Many alleged the article misrepresented (https://twitter.com/ScepticGeek/status/819889764409044992) a feature of the encryption WhatsApp's parent company, Facebook, called "expected behavior."* Read more... (http://mashable.com/2017/01/20/experts-demand-guardian-retract-whatsapp-article/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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