دوروف: از واتساپ دوری کنید، ابزار تجسس است
پاوِل دوروف، بنیانگذار تلگرام، چهارشنبه شب در یک یادداشت با تاکید بر
آسیبپذیری واتساپ متعلق به کمپانی مِتا در برابر هکرها از همگان خواست از
آن دوری کنند.
آقای دوروف در این یادداشت تاکید کرده است که واتساپ «۱۳ سال است که ابزار تجسس بوده است».
در آغاز دور جدید از اعتراضات مردمی در ایران، همزمان با عدم امکان
اتصال به واتساپ با شمارههای ایران، حتی با فیلترشکن، برخی کاربران موضوع
احتمال همکاری شرکت مِتا (شرکت مادر فیسبوک) با حکومت ایران را مطرح کردند.
Hackers could have full access (!) to everything on the phones of WhatsApp users.
This was possible through a security issue
disclosed by WhatsApp itself
last week. All a hacker had to do to control your phone was send you a
malicious video or start a video call with you on WhatsApp.
You are probably thinking "Yeah, but if I updated WhatsApp to the latest version, I am safe, right"?
Not really.
A WhatsApp security issue exactly like this one
was discovered in 2018, then
another in 2019 and
yet another one in 2020 (tap each year's link to see the corresponding vulnerability). And yes,
in 2017 before that. Prior to 2016, WhatsApp didn't have encryption at all.
Every
year, we learn about some issue in WhatsApp that puts everything on
their users' devices at risk. Which means it's almost certain that a new
security flaw already exists there. Such issues are hardly incidental –
they are planted backdoors. If one backdoor is discovered and has to be
removed, another one is added (read the post "
Why WhatsApp will never be secure" to understand why).
It
doesn't matter if you are the richest person on earth – if you have
WhatsApp installed on your phone, all your data from every app on your
device is accessible, as
Jeff Bezos found out in 2020. That's why I deleted WhatsApp from my devices years ago. Having it installed creates a door to get into your phone.
I'm
not pushing people to switch to Telegram here. With 700M+ active users
and 2M+ daily signups, Telegram doesn't need additional promotion. You
can use any messaging app you like, but do stay away from WhatsApp – it
has now been a surveillance tool for 13 years.
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