[gebco]

There is always so much rhetoric out there about all platforms. Right now some folks point out that consumer BBM is not encrypted and Whatsapp is. Looks like UK authorities found a way to decrypt Whatsapp messages.
Nothing is truly failsafe. Claimed or real.

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[DrBoomBotz]

There is always so much rhetoric out there about all platforms. Right now some folks point out that consumer BBM is not encrypted and Whatsapp is. Looks like UK authorities found a way to decrypt Whatsapp messages.
Nothing is truly failsafe. Claimed or real.

https://privateinternetaccess.com/of...rnetaccess.com

And now there is a little bit more rhetoric.

[Loc22]

Well I don't believe that WhatsApp is end to end encrypted anyway. I think it is all just a bluff.

I just read another news saying that some video of a robbery and rape has been shared over 7,000 times via WhatsApp. If it is end to end encrypted how does the police know how many times it has been shared?

Here is the link to the news http://www.thestar.com.my/news/natio...e-and-robbery/

[cribble2k]

Well I don't believe that WhatsApp is end to end encrypted anyway. I think it is all just a bluff.

I just read another news saying that some video of a robbery and rape has been shared over 7,000 times via WhatsApp. If it is end to end encrypted how does the police know how many times it has been shared?

Here is the link to the news http://www.thestar.com.my/news/natio...e-and-robbery/

BlackBerry claiming they're the 'most secure Android Phones' is also a gimmic and a bluff.

[BlackBerry Guy]

The article says 7000 shares on social media, not WhatsApp...

[John Vieira]

The correct to do is use signal messenger.

[Loc22]

The article says 7000 shares on social media, not WhatsApp...

The sentence before they say it has garnered over 7,000 shares on social media says that is has gone viral on WhatsApp. WhatsApp is a social media.

[BlackBerry Guy]

The sentence before they say it has garnered over 7,000 shares on social media says that is has gone viral on WhatsApp. WhatsApp is a social media.

I'm not sure I'd consider WhatsApp social media. It's a messaging app - which allows you to communicate and share with your contacts on a select, focused basis. Social media basically is something that allows you to share content broadly to everyone. BBM in its original state is a messaging app. Channels is the attempt to give it a social media side as well.

In this situation, I would interpret that the video originally made its rounds via WhatsApp, then got posted to Facebook, Twitter, or whatever social media services, then got shared repeatedly from there. In fact, if you were to Google this particular incident, there is another article that mentions Facebook is that site it went viral on.

One can chose to believe or not believe it when a company says their services are encrypted. Ultimately, if a company is not doing something they said they were, they are the ones that will lose out at the end as they'll lose users pretty quick.

[Prem WatsApp]

Wanna Crypt....? Wanna Decrypt0r? ... it seems all about this cryptic topic now... ;-D

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[chain13]

All encryption could be decrypted if you have the right key. Asymetric mechanism that used by whatsapp will encrypt the message from sender using receiver's public key. Normally, every users have public key (which is not secret) and private key (which is secret). And only intended receiver's private key that can decrypt that.

It's like everyone can send you a letter as long as they know your address and postcode, but the only one who can unlock your letter box is only you who have the (secret) key. If someone could sniff your letter on traffic, they won't be able to read the message because your sender use specific codes to write the message that only you can read.

Be able to decrypt whatsapp's message doesn't mean could decrypt every message in the traffic. Each message has its own uniqueness in their encryption. They can use automatic keygen that generate password combination letter by letter, but it will take a year or even longer until they could find the right key to decrypt your one message (yeah, only one). Unless they have some supercomputers that specifically purposed to do this (kind of silly) thing. The other message need the same effort or maybe more to be decrypted. It doesn't mean whatsapp is bad, so before we post a topic, better to understand what it is first. Actually, bbm's mechanism is no better. It's just nobody has effort to pay look on it.

[qwerty4ever]

The correct to do is use signal messenger.

The US NSA disagrees with you. They can infect Google Android and Apple iOS smartphones and intercept messages prior to encryption on the devices.