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.
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.
Partnering with Open Whisper Systems was a smart move on their part.
+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
از منم از عصری داره مکالماتا رمز نگاری میکنه دو طرفه 😆