Facebook claims that WhatsApp is one of the safest messaging service because it offers end to end encryption hence no one can read the messages but now it has been revealed that the US government and hackers may read the messages and data of WhatsApp users.
This was revealed by the research which was conducted at University of California, Berkeley. Which found a flaw in the encryption method which the researcher believes was intentional to allow the company to ready messages.
Campaigners around the world are shocked and the news and are demanding to end this because this goes against the basic freedom of speech.
[junkie-alert style=”green”] Tobias Boelter is the cryptographer and security researcher who made the shocking revelation. He said that Whatsapp will be able to access and provide the data of any user if it wants. [/junkie-alert]
He previously made this revelation to Facebook which said that they are aware of it and that it was an ‘expected behavior’.