How secure is WhatsApp?
WhatsApp is a Messenger that is used worldwide is to have messages to send. It is enough to have the phone numbers of your friends stored in your address book, because WhatsApp adds this the first time you use automatically in the WhatsApp contact list. But how safe is the handling of this data when WhatsApp is really? Our combined points will help you to make a private judgment:
- WhatsApp encrypts all Chats and calls to protect its users. The so-called end is used when Sending a message-to-end encryption, where the data are only on the receiver side for decryption. The encryption is always enabled and cannot be disabled.
- However, it was recently by the Guardian of an alleged security vulnerability criticised: it is for WhatsApp possible, new keys for users that are offline, to create and not yet sent messages to the deduction of tires. In this way, a complete Chat history can be retrieved. The users get nothing.
- The WhatsApp developers themselves said in a Statement that there is no security gap as WhatsApp, governments no insight into their systems. The Guardian criticized aspects were not the only cause messages to be lost when changing a security key.
- Meta-data is not encrypted by WhatsApp. So it is possible to view who has been chatting with whom.
- Under "settings -> Account -> security", you can set the Display of security notifications. You know immediately if the security number of a contact has changed. Only if you and your contacts use the latest WhatsApp Version, for encrypted Chats.
WhatsApp safe? (Image: Pixabay)
For more information on WhatsApp encryption gap read in our next article.
