WhatsApp is not and will never be safe, according to Telegram’s creator

On May 14, 2019, we notified you that you needed to update your WhatsApp app quickly because it was the victim of a security breach. It allowed a hacker to inject malware into Android and iOS smartphones remotely. A spyware responsive on behalf of Pegasus has been specifically identified and may have been used to spy on human rights activists’ smartphones.

Is Telegram more secure than WhatsApp?

Bad publicity on Pavel Dourov, co-founder of rival instant messaging app Telegram, who isn’t shy about surfing. The latter is known to be particularly reliable and safe. According to Dourov, this would not be the case with WhatsApp. “WhatsApp’s history is recurring: from the initial nonexistent encryption to a host of security issues strangely adapted to surveillance”He denounced it in a post on his Telegram channel that was spotted by AFP.

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In this openly titled text (“Why WhatsApp will never be secure”), assures that it is not. “In the ten years of WhatsApp’s existence, there is not a single day that this service is secure”. And you should know that Facebook has no intention of rectifying the situation, especially because it does not want to alienate the authorities. As a reminder, Facebook should finally merge messengers from WhatsApp, Instagram and Messenger. It is a project whose results are not yet known in terms of security. Of course, it’s in Durov’s interest to touch WhatsApp: Telegram had gained millions of users during a global Facebook outage. That’s why he knows his app is a preferred alternative for users leaving Messenger or WhatsApp.