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?
SimpleX still has signup bugs:
(1) clicking on the join link from Facebook fails because SimpleX does not strip the FB crap which gets appended.
(2) scanning the QR code fails with your default phone camera app (turns out you must use SimpleX to scan it.
I reported both bugs on github a couple of months ago and nobody had picked up on them.