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Report: WhatsApp Vulnerable to Snooping

NOT-SO-PRIVATE

“Security backdoor” discovered for surveillance.

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According to a new Guardian report, Facebook’s encrypted mobile-messaging service WhatsApp is vulnerable to government snooping. The app has long been touted as one that protects users’ privacy, but according to the report, a security backdoor has been discovered in the program’s end-to-end encryption protocol.

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