Does the social media company Facebook have access to all the highly personal messages sent by billions of people around the world on the WhatsApp app?<\/p>\r\n
In an interview with the British Guardian, the young German researcher, Tobias Boulter, said that the company installed a backdoor exploit in the application, giving it access to all content transmitted through it - even though Facebook and WhatsApp have always vehemently claimed otherwise.<\/p>\r\n
Bolter, whose words were quoted in 'Nana10', said that at first he thought it was a bug or some kind of loophole, but the deeper he delved into his investigation, the more he realized it was a deliberate backdoor.<\/p>\r\n
Facebook has repeatedly emphasized for years how secure WhatsApp is and that no party, not even the company itself, has access to users' correspondence.<\/p>\r\n
Now it turns out that Facebook has left itself the ability to intercept and read users' messages, without them even knowing about it.<\/p>\r\n
Not working on the matter<\/strong><\/p>\r\n Over a billion people - according to data from February 2016 - use the WhatsApp application, and last April the company launched an encryption upgrade accompanied by major media publicity.<\/p>\r\n According to Boulter, he contacted Facebook in April 2016 and reported the matter to them in what is known as a "whitehat report" as part of a code of ethics in which "good" hackers who uncover security breaches notify the hacker.<\/p>\r\n However, Facebook claimed, in a message he received a month and a half later on 05\/25, that this was "expected behavior" and that there was no problem here.<\/p>\r\n Bolter replied to the company that "it is unacceptable that this would be the expected behavior" - and then received the following response on 05\/31: "We are aware of the matter... for now, it is not something we are working to change.".<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A young German researcher has exposed what appears to be one of the biggest scams in the modern security world: Despite the statements of Facebook and WhatsApp, it turns out that the company installed a backdoor in the app - giving it access to all content transmitted through it. \u2022 Meaning: All your messages are exposed","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[94],"tags":[16851,16853,16850,16852],"class_list":["post-339773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-94","tag-16851","tag-16853","tag-16850","tag-16852"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n