The Facebook company’s app WhatsApp is popular for sending messages and talking (video and audio) worldwide. WhatsApp claims that the privacy of users is maintained and everything from chats to end-to-end encrypted.
lives. Despite this, messages sent through this service leak regularly. Which raises questions on this claim of the company.
From this it is clear that there is such a backdoor or hack method, with the help of which anyone other than the sender and receiver of the message can infiltrate it. What is that method, why do you need to know? What is encryption?
According to WhatsApp, the Signal encryption protocol is used for the flow of the conversation. Which can be considered like a safe lock. The key of which is only with the sender and receiver of the message. The special thing is that this encryption is turned on automatically, there is no need to set any setting to activate it or adopt any method like secret chat to keep your messages secure. This method of signal encryption is a cryptographic protocol, developed by Open Whisper Systems in 2013.
How does the leak happen?
Usually, the leak of WhatsApp messages means nothing more than a screenshot of the conversation, which has been shared by the recipient or someone else from his phone. Here WhatsApp states in the subtitle of its Privacy Policy called Third Party Information that you should keep in mind that any user can take a screenshot of your message or conversation, or record your call and send it to WhatsApp You can send it to someone else or post it on any other platform.
Phone cloning possible:
Recently, in the case of Riya Chakraborty and Aryan Khan, Indian law enforcement officers were able to access their conversations with each other through their phones. Here the leak was in fact investigators handing over their phones, after which investigators were able to retrieve deleted conversations on their phones and see them. But there is also a technical back door through which private WhatsApp conversations can be accessed. This can be done by cloning the phone, as the name suggests, in this medium, by creating an exact copy of any phone, that is, by cloning it, all the material present in that phone can be copied.
Then a spyware can also be secretly inserted (installed) in the phone, through which all the activities related to the alleged phone can be continuously monitored. Pagson spyware developed by an Israeli company that can access WhatsApp conversations.
But the most common way to access WhatsApp conversations is by backing up conversations in the WhatsApp Store in the cloud. WhatsApp itself no longer provides cloud storage and backup of messages with third parties such as Google Drive or iCloud. Storage in the cloud is not encrypted. And if the user’s cloud storage is hacked, the back up of his conversations can be accessed. However, in September Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg said that another layer of security was being added to WhatsApp that would provide end-to-end encryption to people who choose Google Drive or iCloud as a backup.
Is there any data that WhatsApp has access to:
There is a constant tussle between law enforcement agencies and WhatsApp regarding this issue. While agencies say that it facilitates investigation of cases and crime can be curbed and controlled in time, WhatsApp believes that it will compromise with the privacy and security of users. .
It is true that WhatsApp does not store any transaction log after the message has been delivered, but it does not mean that WhatsApp cannot access the messages of its users. In accordance with their Privacy Policy, User Information may be stored, used, protected or shared if there is a belief that it is absolutely necessary. Circumstances in which this thing may apply.
1. To protect the user.
2. To investigate and prevent any illegal activity.
3. As a response to the legal process or at the request of the Government.
4. To enforce our Terms and Policies, this may also include information about how some Users interact with others through our Service.
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