An important function of the Whatsapp end sub lupën of students to safety as to the cause of a fault cannot be practically useless. We're talking about a system that allows you to send messages that disappear after the recipient has seen it.
How to startupin Zengo believe the title was “totally demolished, and it can be overcome easily”. it was limited to the platforms, where it can be applied the necessary controls (such as, for example, a mobile phone), but the servers on which they are present, the API-for WhatsApp do not apply to those as they should, and continue to send these messages to the other.
“Messages in the media that is consumed were technically of the same messages in the media to be normal, with only a standard “check only once” turned on,” we read in the research, where it is noted how “it would mean that it is equivalent virtual placement of a note on the photos. It says “do not look”. All of this is that the attackers need to do is just set this flag to false, and the media, it becomes normal, and it can be downloaded, tracked and shared in this manner , thus making it almost pointless the main purpose of the system, according to the researchers, it is a design that is slow, is designed for the worst”.
On Github there are examples of the different kodesh of the customer to modify the Android, and an add-on for Chrome that can allow anyone to make use of the source of the problem. Because of this, the team decided to make it publicly available immediately defektin, bypassing the period of the 90-day moszbulimit.
A spokesperson for the WhatsApp speaking to The Register, he confirmed that the company is aware of the issue and is working to get a better understanding of it.
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