On February 18, 2020, I posted on NetSPI’s Executive Blog.
It is very common to hear people make blanket statements like “WhatsApp is secure,” but they rarely truly understand the actual security controls that WhatsApp is providing. In fact, this notion of being “secure” is one of the main reasons why WhatsApp gained so much popularity and built such a big user base.
In today’s world where everything is on the Internet, people tend to crave some privacy, especially when they are communicating with other people and sharing personal conversations, and the fact that WhatsApp offers a secure communication channel where the messages between users are fully encrypted to the point where the company/app that is providing the service cannot see the messages between their users makes people feel a false sense of security when using WhatsApp.
Read full post here: https://www.netspi.com/blog/executive/security-industry/why-do-people-confuse-end-to-end-encryption-with-security/
