I hope by now you have updated you’re WhatsApp. If you haven’t
I recommend you update it as soon as possible. For those of you who have, you
may have noticed a notification in your chats which looks something like this.
Basically end to end encryption is WhatsApp’s way of keeping
your private conversations private. This means the only people who can read
your message are people you send it to. And WhatsApp won’t just encrypt your
messages it will also encrypt your calls, photos and videos.
The way this works is that WhatsApp uses a unique key for
each message you send, so even if someone gets a hold of a key they won’t be
able to crack your entire conversation, at best they will get a tiny fragment of
the entire conversation. But it only works if both people in the conversation
or if all the members of a group have the latest version of WhatsApp installed.
This is a big step considering that it has over a billion
active users i.e. it is next to only Facebook as a social communication tool.
Even though WhatsApp doesn’t store your messages in a database like google or Facebook
from which authorities can demand access information, the possibility of
interception in air was always present.
If you own a black berry or nokia device you may want to read this article.
If you have any questions or extra information feel free to comment below.
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