WhatsApp, which has over one billion users, never had a "backdoor." It did, however, make some decisions in favor of usability that some security experts thought compromised the system to a few kinds of attack that other researchers believed were unlikely.Įven WhatsApp pushed back, with co-founder Brian Acton previously telling Business Insider in a statement that "The Guardian’s story on an alleged 'backdoor' in WhatsApp is false." An editor's note In a long post, Paul Chadwick, The Guardian's reader's editor, said "The Guardian was wrong to report last January that the popular messaging service WhatsApp had a security flaw so serious that it was a huge threat to freedom of speech." The original story has not been taken down, but it has been revised and there is now a prominent editor's note at the top. The Guardian on Wednesday published changes to a controversial story that originally claimed Facebook's popular messaging service, WhatsApp, had a "backdoor" that could give third parties a way to read private messages.
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