Are you ever concerned that the
messages you share between friends can ever be read by others? Most
messaging services such as LINE and WhatsApp have more features than
just text support; you can send audio and video as well. So should you
be overly concerned about your data? Well, I wouldn’t worry too much
about it if I were you as it appears as though your privacy is being
taken quite seriously by WhatsApp. They have just made a deal with Open Whisper Systems this week to use TextSecure protocol to scramble messages, thereby hiding the message.
Open Whisper Systems are protecting WhatsApp messages by using text secure protocol.
“Open Whisper Systems said in a blog
post, “WhatsApp deserves enormous praise for devoting considerable time
and effort to this project…Even though we’re still at the beginning of
the rollout, we believe this already represents the largest deployment
of end-to-end encrypted communication in history.”
The TextSecure encryption is enabled
automatically as a default setting in the most recent version of
WhatsApp for mobile devices powered Android software. Open
Whisper said. “Brian Acton (WhatsApp co-founder) and the WhatsApp
engineering team has been amazing to work with…Their devotion to the
project as well as their thoroughness in getting this done are inspiring
in a world where so many other companies are focused on surveillance
instead of privacy.”
Open Whisper is an open-source project that is supported by grants and donations.During
the South By Southwest conference earlier this year, former National
Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden is known to have praised the
encryption tools offered by Open Whisper.
The announcement was confirmed to AFP but
apparently they declined to comment any further. In October, Facebook
completed its purchase of WhatsApp, with the mostly stock deal reaching nearly $22 billion.
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