The process that the FBI is moving against Apple will certainly leave a deep mark, whatever its outcome. But the American justice already has other victims under the eye.
Once you want to put a backdoor in iOS, is preparing to go after his next victim. And the rumors point to the chosen has been WhatsApp!
During the weekend week came the first reports that the US Department of Justice was investigating the WhatsApp and how cipher your messages.
Known as inviolable and impossible to break, this service belongs to Facebook may now be in the crosshairs of the authorities, who after aim for Apple, now seek to solve problems they have with WhatsApp.
a new case in US courts
a judge in a case that takes place in an American court, authorized to be realized eavesdropping. But these prove useless to be to use WhatsApp, this service uses to figure in order. This figure, which has existed since the beginning of the service, is making it impossible to access the messages.
This inability to access messages is now raising the same doubts that the FBI had when he was behind Apple and make the WhatsApp as the next victim of these processes and to try to control access to messages exchanged in this service.
recent cases that came to lead to the arrest of an executive of Facebook in Brazil, prove that being difficult to the company meet the demands of justice when application access to users’ messages.
the WhatsApp answer comes in the number of voice calls
at a time when beginning to be evaluated by the uS Department of Justice, WhatsApp seems to be preparing to increase security in their services.
arising rumors take for granted that in the coming weeks voice calls on WhatsApp also begin to be encrypted and only the players can have access to these. Once again the company will not have access to what is broadcast on your network, by choice.
After Apple, it seems to be Facebook and WhatsApp the next victims of pressure and processes to create devices to allow access to contents users. The question is whether, as happened in the case of Apple, will take the industry to support them and to try to prevent these measures are enforced.
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