It is long *past* time for everyone involved in the kinds of activities discussed here to completely and permanently excise Facebook's services/products from their computing environment. No excuses.
---rsk ----- Forwarded message from Richard Forno <rfo...@infowarrior.org> ----- > To: Infowarrior List <infowarr...@attrition.org> > Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2017 08:18:42 -0500 > Subject: [Infowarrior] - WhatsApp backdoor allows snooping on encrypted > messages > > > WhatsApp backdoor allows snooping on encrypted messages > > https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/jan/13/whatsapp-backdoor-allows-snooping-on-encrypted-messages > > A security backdoor that can be used to allow Facebook and others to > intercept and read encrypted messages has been found within its WhatsApp > messaging service. > > Facebook claims that no one can intercept WhatsApp messages, not even the > company and its staff, ensuring privacy for its billion-plus users. But > new research shows that the company could in fact read messages due to > the way WhatsApp has implemented its end-to-end encryption protocol. > > Privacy campaigners said the vulnerability is a ???huge threat to freedom > of speech??? and warned it can be used by government agencies to snoop > on users who believe their messages to be secure. WhatsApp has made > privacy and security a primary selling point, and has become a go to > communications tool of activists, dissidents and diplomats. > > < - > > > Boelter reported the backdoor vulnerability to Facebook in April 2016, > but was told that Facebook was aware of the issue, that it was ???expected > behaviour??? and wasn???t being actively worked on. The Guardian has > verified the backdoor still exists. > -- Liberationtech is public & archives are searchable on Google. Violations of list guidelines will get you moderated: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech. Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at compa...@stanford.edu.
