After recent messages of messages from WhatsApp On the part of the members of the Government of Spain, many people wonder if their application is safe, or if someone could intercept all messages sent and received With other people.
Today we will see how this type of apps works, and if we can really do something to prevent this from happening to us, since it is very easy to be protected, and not make mistakes, although many people do not know exactly the operation of all this.
How to protect our leak from leaks
WhatsApp uses an encryption and safety system between two points, that is, all messages that are sent and received, either in a group with multiple people, or only between two users, are safe, and no one can intercept them on the network, so we should not worry about what we send to another person.
However, how do the leaks we are seeing in the news? Well, although the shipments are safe, as we said, the copies we can do on our phone, no, since you are, as WhatsApp indicates when doing them, no are encryptedand they are pure text (.txt), which can be read from your iPhone, or from anywhere they get that file, which can arise by many media, viruses, etc.
That is, if we want to be protected, and that no one steals our information, we must have Be very careful to make external copies Of a conversation, since it could be intercepted, while if we do not touch anything, and leave everything in the WhatsApp, the risks are reduced, and much, although there are other types of possible leaks, as someone gets access to our phone number, or open a session in WhatsApp Web With him, for example, although for that they would have to have physical access to it, and it would no longer be through the Internet.
In other applications such as Telegram, the thing changes, and it is that it uses the cloud to store all messages, so if someone has access to any of our devices, they could log in to a particular team of yours, and see everything we do or write, so, no matter how much encryption there will be, it would not help, and we would have a more serious problem.
As a recommendation, we must see the sessions initiated, both on WhatsApp Web and in other servicesthus being able to see if someone is connected to our app, or we are sure. If there is no one linked to her, and we do not have external copies, we can be calm, that in principle no one will have our information, unless, voluntarily, we want them to have it, that is, the other person who does not comply with these security measures, since as much as we do it well, if they get the conversation on the other side, they would also have ours, since in their chat the messages appear that we have sent to you. subsequently. And you, what do you think of all this? Do you have your WhatsApp sure?
