Popular messaging service WhatsApp is in the eye of a storm following persistent revelations that its system of making messages unreadable to third parties is not as watertight as it makes users believe. The latest disclosure was made on Friday by the Guardian, a British newspaper, which quoted experts saying there is a likelihood that messages sent on WhatsApp can be accessed by the chat provider’s servers especially when the recipient is not immediately available to read a message sent to them.
The paper said that given the desire by some governments to know what individuals are exchanging, the vulnerability could threaten people like dissidents, activists and diplomats who use the service knowing it is free from snooping.
The problem, according to the Guardian, arises from a key-based system of accessing messages. When a person sends a message, WhatsApp’s servers assign the message a certain code (key) to make it unique and unreadable to anyone, a process called encryption.
That key works with another one that the server assigns to the recipient’s phone, meaning the message is a bundle of undecipherable codes until the person on the other end opens it.
This means the message goes from the sender to the recipient without even WhatsApp’s servers knowing what is in it.
However, questions are arising over what happens to the codes when the recipient is offline
According to the publication, WhatsApp generates a new key for an offline reader when they log back into the messaging service, which means the message lingers on its servers and can thus be available for retrieving.
The solution is either WhatsApp changes the security implementation method or WhatsApp users must stop sending any confidential messages over that channel, because it’s a public communication channel. For confidential messaging, other methods are available especially email with hash based signature method.
It is a risk for whole world as it relies on that messaging system.
Now you know
I hope not. Nowadays whatsapp has become so private
how so?
very private conversations going on between people everyday
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Upus news. This was prooved to be false. Ulihata hiyo pia?
People with something to hide are using more secure IM clients like chatsecure or wickr. The rest of us can continue trading nudes, unless the government also wanna wank to the same they welcome.
Where was it prooved?
What’s app has never been private to start with. It is owned by Facebook which is a peddler of people’s information for monetary gain. And do you think if the government went to facebook and demanded for it, they would refuse?
The only way to pass sensitive conversation is face to face in a noisy place.
@Deorro Any company in business is entitled to do damage control.when such allegations come up whatsapp has the right to deny to look authentic but that doesn’t necessarily mean all is perfect. The security issue has been raised by different publications and still no measure has been taken
Not by Whatsapo itself.
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Figisid. 
The masses mostly share useless stuff which is only useful to a few or only themselves.
Unless in corporate groups where the shared information might be of importance to competitors.
From the explanation above, one has to breach the whatsapp servers, know the target phones allocated account, get the assined keys.
All this is possible if the recipients phone is offline.
This is a long and expensive call. Why not steal the recipients phone and crack the code.
Target the handset with spyware and backdoors. It is cheaper and more practical.
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last time I checked even third party apps, read spyware and others, also can’t read WhatsApp messages, unless you of one
Cracking the code would mean that you gain access to the root of the phone. With Android 4.4 and above, (I think that the latest is 7.0 or so) this is impossible. The thing is, if she/he makes the chats private, they’re private & you ain’t welcome in the chats.