Saturday, 30 July 2016

WhatsApp chats leave a record even after deletion, says security researcher

Is you the user WhatsApp with iPhone, chats may not be as safe as you think.Despite the announcement of the implementation of the popular e-mail at the beginning of this year, which encrypt all user data, said security researcher on Friday that the latest version of WhatsApp for iOS for Apple Iphones leave some sensitive information, researcher, Jonathan Zdziarski, found traces of deleted cats in combined in the negotiations, he said to each other, and that even if you have deleted or removed.

Zdziarski wrote in a blog that the debris can be "for several months". And, as he said, it seems that the only way to really shred cats WhatsApp is removed from the phone. Zdziarski added that Apple software, the IMessage also suffers from the problem, he wrote in March.

Neither Facebook, nor Apple, owned WhatsApp did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

The issue of privacy and encryption - encryption of messages, so that they can be read by the recipient - was born in 2013 after Snowden leaking secret documents about the appetite of the US National Security Agency to collect the digital data of persons.

It is powered by a spat between the technology industry and governments worldwide. One in particular, has been a permanent FBI Apple, iPhone hack to help terrorists. The desire for a different application of Brazilian law involved access to chats WhatsApp users.

Zdziarski said that there is no need for WhatsApp users panic about cats removed, but you should know that the police and others to gain access to the negotiations supposedly garbage. He also listed the ways to mitigate the problem here.

WhatsApp said in February that 1 billion people use the app on different devices.

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