WhatsApp now offers full end-to-end encryption to all of its 1 billion users

05 April, 2016
Well, it's happened. As predicted last month, WhatsApp has now finalized its multi-year long effort to bring end-to-end encryption to all aspects of the service, and to all of its users. The number of those, by the way, has grown to over 1 billion. That makes the Facebook-owned app essentially the second most popular social network after Facebook itself, which has around 1.5 billion users.

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  • 06 Apr 2016

AnonD-495544, 06 Apr 2016I don't believe in this end-to-end encryption.First, evil p... moreIt doesn't matter my messages are sensitive or not. Why would I let others see what I text. It doesn't have to be sensitive

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    • mindi
    • MD3
    • 06 Apr 2016

    imbaDOTA2player, 05 Apr 2016There is a disadvantage for this end-to-end encryption thin... moreit's always the "some other stuff" that worries me when it comes to governments and corporation controlled/manipulated governments

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      • mindi
      • MD3
      • 06 Apr 2016

      Anonymous, 05 Apr 2016Still can't do half the things that Telegram does. This is ... moretrue, just that Telegram encryption is not standard, which can(i'm not saying it does) could be decoded by 3rd party(or Telegram itself) providing the proprietary algorithm supports it

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        • AnonD-416078
        • AdF
        • 06 Apr 2016

        AnonD-289575, 05 Apr 2016QR codeThnx :D

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          • Tweedus101
          • MVg
          • 06 Apr 2016

          Anonymous, 06 Apr 2016All terrorists will use it now ...realistically there's more than one way to skin a cat. They could use a multitude of different ways to connect to each other.

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            • AnonD-493232
            • uuD
            • 06 Apr 2016

            now this is easy for them to shortlist the sensitive messages !!!! haha

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              • Anonymous
              • 98P
              • 06 Apr 2016

              All terrorists will use it now ...

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                • AnonD-495544
                • MRf
                • 06 Apr 2016

                I don't believe in this end-to-end encryption.First, evil ppl would abuse this. Second, who in their right mind would send sensitive info through a messenger app!?

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                  • AnonD-523084
                  • 95H
                  • 06 Apr 2016

                  what about the older versions of whatsapp?
                  was, all the data shared, monitored or being viewed by employees of whatsapp or anyone else??

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                    • AnonD-442781
                    • pJc
                    • 06 Apr 2016

                    AnonD-224477, 05 Apr 2016The biggest support for terrorist came from whatsapp. An... moreThe real crooks would find somewhere else to talk, so its not a bad thing for what's app to be encrypted.

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                      • nC7
                      • 05 Apr 2016

                      It is too dangerous to have this kind of encryption. out of one billion users there should be many threat in coming days and Whatsapp is leading them with the help of Facebook and who elese!! Maybe the country these companies belonging to

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                        • Anonymous
                        • uwj
                        • 05 Apr 2016

                        There will be real time pattern recognition by facebook as annonced hence governments will take real-time massage streams from facebook for matching select keywords from database to highlight and mark the terrorists unofficially

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                          • Xu4
                          • 05 Apr 2016

                          AnonD-416078, 05 Apr 2016AFAIK Encryption needs a "key", so what is the key gonna be... moreQR code

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                            • AnonD-224477
                            • pRA
                            • 05 Apr 2016

                            The biggest support for terrorist came from whatsapp.

                            Anonymous1: hey dude where do you want me to bomb tomorrow

                            Anonymous2: as you wish bro or let me send you the exact location so we dont miss the fun.

                            How many sick people out of 1 billion using whatsapp.

                            Now I know why facebook payed such an amount for chatting company.

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                              • imbaDOTA2player
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                              • 05 Apr 2016

                              There is a disadvantage for this end-to-end encryption thing, just for example what happened in FBI vs. Apple Inc. the FBI demands on Apple to unlock the terrorist's iPhone in order for them to get all the information and data stored on the device so that they can get evidence and some other stuffs. If WhatsApp has the end-to-end encryption thing which is stated there that all the messages and voice communications will not be stored on their servers it is a big disadvantage for the government or the victim to get the information on the suspect's phone.

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                                • AnonD-416078
                                • AdF
                                • 05 Apr 2016

                                AFAIK Encryption needs a "key", so what is the key gonna be in this case?
                                For instance, in iPhones the 4 digit password is used as the encryption key, here what are they gonna use?

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                                  • Anonymous
                                  • 6TT
                                  • 05 Apr 2016

                                  Still can't do half the things that Telegram does. This is a screwed up messenger compared to the latter.

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                                    • AnonD-489867
                                    • JLR
                                    • 05 Apr 2016

                                    hoooo whoose whatsapp acoount is that

                                    nietzche scaaaaaaaary haha :D

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                                      • Anonymous
                                      • n}$
                                      • 05 Apr 2016

                                      "Talk is cheap. Show me the code."

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                                        • Anonymous
                                        • X}Q
                                        • 05 Apr 2016

                                        I still don't quite get what this end to end encryption does and the benefits of it over previous versions LOL. What I'd like to see however is that, WhatsApp data being able to transfer across different platforms e.g iOS to Android