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0 pointstheyinwhy8y ago0 comments

> And now that Brian Acton left WhatsApp, you should be very careful with what you saw in WhatsApp's end-to-end encrypted chats, too.

Why?

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KozmoNau78y ago· 3 in thread

There have been numerous reports about the insecurities of WhatsApp over the years.

For instance: http://www.information-age.com/whatsapp-can-read-users-encry...

tao_oat8y ago

The Guardian, that initially published this “insecurity”, has been heavily criticized by security experts for their article: https://mashable.com/2017/01/20/experts-demand-guardian-retr...

If there are other insecurities, please post them here - I haven’t heard of others than this one.

KozmoNau78y ago

There's also this: http://indianexpress.com/article/technology/tech-news-techno...

And this: http://www.businessinsider.com/whatsapp-security-2014-2?r=US...

The fact that it is owned by Facebook is enough to make me stay away.

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theyinwhyOP8y ago

I was just wondering why the leave of Brian Acton would change anything significantly.

Besides that I would never touch WhatsApp. The fact that they hand your phone number over to facebook is one of many reasons to stay far away of this messenger.

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