Telegram’s CEO has accused WhatsApp of a “consumer fraud” regarding its encryption, claiming most messages are unencrypted in cloud backups. While WhatsApp’s in-transit encryption is robust, backups to Apple and Google servers are vulnerable unless users manually enable password protection. This issue highlights a significant gap in message security, despite the app’s core encryption working as intended.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Telegram’s CEO has accused WhatsApp of a “consumer fraud” regarding its encryption, claiming most messages are unencrypted in cloud backups. While WhatsApp’s in-transit encryption is robust, backups to Apple and Google servers are vulnerable unless users manually enable password protection. This issue highlights a significant gap in message security, despite the app’s core encryption working… Read More »Telegram founder Durov calls WhatsApp’s E2E security a ‘Giant Consumer Fraud,’ while users may be at fault<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":103629,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103628"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103628\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/103629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}