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WhatsApp just flipped on end-to-end encryption for 1 billion people

April 5, 2016 by Paul Spoerry 4 Comments



Forget Apple vs. the FBI: WhatsApp Just Switched on Encryption for a Billion People
This morning, WhatsApp made the scope of the Apple-FBI encryption battle look kinda small.

I'm officially installing it now. every message, whether it's voice, text, photo, video, group or one-on-one. Open Whisper Systems, an organization that aims to advance secure communication technology, worked with WhatsApp over the past year to implement a full-coverage encryption system.

Check this out on Google+

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About Paul Spoerry

I’m a groovy cat who’s into technology, Eastern Thought, and house music. I’m a proud and dedicated father to the coolest little guy on the planet (seriously, I'm NOT biased). I’m fascinated by ninjas, the Internet, and anybody who can balance objects on their nose for long periods of time.

I have a utility belt full of programming languages and a database of all my knowledge on databases... I practice code fu. Oh, I've also done actual Kung Fu, and have a black belt in Tae Kwon Do.

I run. I meditate. I dance. I blog at PaulSpoerry.com, tweet @PaulSpoerry, and I'm here on Google+.

I'm currently work for IBM developing web enabled insurance applications for IBM and support and develop a non-profit called The LittleBigFund.

Comments

  1. Juanpe Araque says

    April 5, 2016 at 11:08 am

    It is called marketing, the art of turning a black street into an iluminated narrow alley… Whatsapp has been for a lot of time the flag of not secure communications and has been the last of a lot of applications to make something about securing their billion users communications. Bugs, holes, open wifis dissasters and plain text file saves since the beggining. Now they do what they should have done a lot of time ago and suddenly they become the example to follow… it was a dark street, now they call the iluminated narrow alley… well done.

  2. Paul Spoerry says

    April 5, 2016 at 11:17 am

    Partnering with Open Whisper Systems was a smart move on their part.

  3. Juanpe Araque says

    April 5, 2016 at 11:21 am

    +Paul Spoerry sure, a step (or another similar) they should have done long time ago. They are now the best they should be, but they got there from the worst of all most used apps. They even sued people who pointed out flaws in the system some years ago… Moving forward is good, what I don't like is this sense I am getting that they are making an example when they are late and were the worst example about security since the beginning. But well… that's live. I am just a physicist who earn nothing complaining about billions dollar corporations… just no one xD

  4. mostafa tahmasebi says

    April 5, 2016 at 12:12 pm

    از منم از عصری داره مکالماتا رمز نگاری میکنه دو طرفه 😆

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