Whatsapp's messaging app supposedly ensures strong end-to-end encryption, with the idea being that only the people involved in a conversation will ever be able to read the messages. But as it turns out, a programming bug -- that Whatsapp has known about for some time and has not fixed -- theoretically allows Whatsapp to snoop on any encrypted messages sent over the platform. The Guardian first reported on the bug, which was found by Tobias Boelter, a security researcher at the University of Cali...
Whatsapp's messaging app supposedly ensures strong end-to-end encryption, with the idea being that only the people involved in a conversation will ever be able to read the messages. But as it turns out, a programming bug -- that Whatsapp has known about for some time and has not fixed -- theoretically allows Whatsapp to snoop on any encrypted messages sent over the platform. The Guardian first reported on the bug, which was found by Tobias Boelter, a security researcher at the University of Cali...
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