A Dutch computer science student has said that all users on WhatsApp, a popular messaging alternative to SMS, should consider their chats compromised after he has found flaws in the encryption used in the app. “You should assume that anyone who is able to eavesdrop on your WhatsApp connection is …
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WhatsApp’s CEO Jan Koum has told TechGeek that a Dutch computer science student’s claims that all messages should be considered compromised are “inaccurate”, and that the entire story has been “sensationalised and overblown”. The Dutch computer science student – Thijs Alkemade from Utrecht University – this week found several flaws in …
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Image: Jan Persiel/Flickr (Creative Commons) Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has just announced that popular cross-platform mobile messaging app, WhatsApp, will become a part of the Facebook in a sale worth US$16 billion in cash and stock. The service, which is used by 450 million people every month, will remain separate from …
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