WhatsApp: That 'backdoor' in our encryption is actually a feature
 

WhatsApp: That 'backdoor' in our encryption is actually a feature
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Neither WhatsApp **r The Guardian are having a good day.

The UK-based newspaper published a scathing exclusive report early Friday morning, purporting to reveal disturbing news about the encryption used by WhatsApp's, the Facebook-owned messaging service. Almost as soon as the article went live, however, security experts took to the internet to publicly question the nature of its claims. *

Late in the day Friday, Open Whisper Systems, the team behind the end-to-end encryption service used by WhatsApp and secure messaging client Signal, published a blog post in response to the article. The post refuted The Guardian's claims at length, expressing the team's disappointment with the way in which the news was reported.* Read more...

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