Company “Facebook” (which since October 2014 belongs to WhatsApp) announced that has taken additional measures for the protection of WhatsApp mobile application users from intercepting communications and increased encryption system.
According to the company, the content of messages over a billion users WhatsApp will be available only to the sender and the recipient of the text
“The idea is simple. when you send a message, the only person who can read it, it is the recipient or group chatting which addressed a message no one else can read the message no cybercriminals Neither hackers Neither despotic regimes Even we [the creators messenger] can not read it, “-….. said in a blog, co-founder and CEO of messenger WhatsApp Jan Kuma
to improve encryption systems work team start WhatsApp two years ago. Statement on strengthening the protection of messages appeared on the background of confrontation, the ensuing between Apple and the FBI.
In mid-February, a court in the US has ordered Apple to help the FBI to gain access to information stored in the iPhone’s internal memory, whose owner Saeed Farooq in December shot 14 people in the US city of San Bernardino, and was killed in a shootout with the police.
Apple refused to perform drawn in February, a court order, which obliged the company to develop special software to unlock your phone, and challenged him to a higher instance. Later, Washington said that FBI agents were able to crack a locked iPhone, owned by Said Farouk. After that, Apple has promised to improve protection of their products.
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