The world seems to be shocked by the news that WhatsApp turned any phone into spyware. Everything on your phone – including photos, emails and texts – could be accessed by attackers just because you had WhatsApp installed [1].
This news didn’t surprise me, though. Last year WhatsApp had to admit they had a very similar issue – a single video call via WhatsApp was all a hacker needed to get access to all of your phone’s data [2].
Every time WhatsApp has to fix a critical vulnerability in their app, a new…
This is an article written by telegram’s founder and CEO Pavel Durov in 2019 on “Why whatsapp will never be secure”. Your thoughts?
He’s not wrong about WhatsApp, though. WhatsApp is closed source, and did have a string of vulnerabilities that lead to remote code execution. I disagree with the presumption that open source means secure, but their security guarantees can’t be validated to the same extent their competition can be validated.
Of course, WhatsApp being bad doesn’t make Telegram any good. I don’t think their DH is still vulnerable (MTProto 2.0 has been out for ages now) but as a general purpose chat app, it’s practically worthless in terms of privacy.
Signal beats WhatsApp/RCS, which beat Telegram, which beats IRC/SMS.
He’s not wrong about WhatsApp, though. WhatsApp is closed source, and did have a string of vulnerabilities that lead to remote code execution. I disagree with the presumption that open source means secure, but their security guarantees can’t be validated to the same extent their competition can be validated.
Of course, WhatsApp being bad doesn’t make Telegram any good. I don’t think their DH is still vulnerable (MTProto 2.0 has been out for ages now) but as a general purpose chat app, it’s practically worthless in terms of privacy.
Signal beats WhatsApp/RCS, which beat Telegram, which beats IRC/SMS.