The company bought by Facebook in 2014 begin to apply default point to point encryption. This means that messages sent can not be seen by anyone but the sender and the receiver, even for the same company.
Several users WhatsApp they met Tuesday with a yellow warning in the chat window with its users by the courier. The company bought by Facebook in 2014 will begin applying default encryption point to point.
This means that messages sent can not be seen by anyone but the sender and the receiver, even for the same company.
This initiative comes in followed by the confrontation between Apple and the United States Department of Justice. The latter he asked the Cupertino company to unlock the iPhone one of the authors of the shooting of San Bernardino, California, held late last year in order to find evidence of the reasons for the attack. While Apple flatly refused to provide access to preserve the privacy of all users, the FBI managed to unlock your phone without your help thanks to the advice of an Israeli company.
also, WhatsApp covers of possible applications of this nature by any agency of government, because they have no access to messages that users are exchanged.
encryption is a method of cyber protection that encrypts data so that only those with the “key” to access them. That is, if an attacker tried to intercept a message WhatsApp will only see a series of meaningless characters. Those who hold the key to decrypt are sender and recipient.
WhatsApp had begun work on the full encryption of point to point two years ago, when it began offering protection only in talks between two users but not groups. . Moreover, then only messages with text, but images, videos and audios not
encriptaban In a posting of blog announcing this new update, WhatsApp spelled out: “The idea is simple: when you send a message, the only person who can read is the person or group to which the message is sent. No one can see into that message. Neither cybercriminals. Neither hackers. Neither oppressive regimes. Not even us. “
The Reuters news agency sought the views of the Department of Justice and the FBI , but got no answer.
Daily Observer Uruguay ( RIPE )
Red Iberoamericana Economic Press
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