Responding to criticism WhatsApp plans one-time messages

Status: 14.06.2021 11:19 a.m.

The WhatsApp chat service is responding to the growing criticism of its market power. The fears of many users are to be allayed with new functions for the protection of privacy. The WhatsApp chat service wants to stick to the complete encryption and is promising new functions to protect privacy. The company, which belongs to the US group Facebook, is launching an advertising campaign on data protection in Germany and Great Britain today. The countries are among their most important markets. Management’s ideas include the ability to send messages that the recipient can only view once. That could be useful, for example, if you have to send family members a password, said WhatsApp boss Will Cathcart.

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Users also want to be able to set that chats disappear on their own after a certain period of time. “Overall, people don’t want their messages to last forever,” said Cathcart. “When we talk, we don’t have a recording device with us. So it’s strange that digital chat platforms save them forever.” The short promotional videos say that content sent on WhatsApp is basically only visible in clear text to the users involved thanks to the so-called end-to-end encryption.

Privacy activists alerted

WhatsApp has recently come under pressure for various reasons: On the one hand, the Announcement of the new usage rules caused criticism. Data protectionists warned that WhatsApp could increase data exchange with third-party companies and, above all, that data would also be shared with the parent company Facebook. WhatsApp rejected this and emphasized several times that the end-to-end encryption, with which the service itself does not have access to content, will not be weakened. WhatsApp boss Cathcart admitted errors in the announcement of the new rules. WhatsApp has not made it clear enough what you are doing and why: “We only became clearer when we saw the confusion. That is our responsibility,” said Cathcart.

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More than two billion users

In view of the criticism, many people have apparently looked around for alternatives to the chat service. The company currently has more than two billion users. It is not known how many actually migrated. A vast majority of users who have already been asked to agree to the new rules would have accepted them, said Cathcart. He did not give exact numbers. Originally, users who do not agree to the new rules should lose access to basic functions over time. Meanwhile they no longer face any consequences . Only the new functions for communication with companies will only be able to be used after approval of the update. According to WhatsApp, they were the main reason for changing the terms of use.

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Attempt a charm offensive

The company’s move could have another reason: The parent company Facebook is currently not only under close observation in the USA . Last year, federal authorities and states filed lawsuits against the Internet giant Google and the online platform Facebook. They are accused of anti-competitive practices. The market power of the large technology groups is now seen as a problem by many governments around the world. Consumer advocates also warn: “The market power of the Facebook group forces users to communicate via WhatsApp,” says Lina Ehrig, the head of the digital and media team at the Federation of German Consumer Organizations. “From the consumer’s point of view, it would be ideal if messenger services are legally and technically designed in such a way that sustainable competition and the innovative strength of the market are promoted.” In order to promote competition, so-called interoperability would be a possible means from the point of view of consumer advocates: As a survey by the consumer advice center shows, around a third of users would be willing to switch messengers if messages could be shared between different providers.

Encryption dispute

For its part, Cathcart is targeting governments. They tried to soften the encryption in chat services. “I hope that, over time, governments will see that the most important role they can play is to keep people safe.” This could be done, for example, by setting standards for companies.

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WhatsApp argues with governments that end-to-end encryption helps protect the security of citizens. Facebook is still sticking to the plan to bring full encryption to its second chat service Messenger as the next step, said Cathcart. In several countries, governments and authorities are attempting the Complete encryption in chat services like WhatsApp . In Germany, too, there is a draft law with which the protection of the constitution is supposed to enable source telecommunications monitoring in encrypted chat services as well.

Not stopping there, things are even more dangerous when two other vulnerabilities can be exploited by hackers to manipulate arbitrary files with higher permissions. What makes these even scarier is that they can be exploited without any user interaction. Samsung is aware of these security flaws and it may take the company about 2 months to fix. For now, the best defense is to make sure your Samsung phone is up to date with the latest firmware. Toshin said he has found more than a dozen vulnerabilities in Samsung devices since the start of the year, with many of these vulnerabilities already fixed. One of the bugs lies in apps and components like the Secure Folder app and the Knox security software that come pre-installed on Samsung devices. Tohsin told TechCrunch that these may have given attackers access to sensitive user data. Among +Samsung devices, the Galaxy S10+ is verified as affected. Another vulnerability resulted in the deletion of all previously downloaded apps once device admin rights were granted to a newly installed app. Additionally, a vulnerability in the Settings app could grant read/write access to files with system user-level privileges. A security flaw that was resolved in February could have given hackers access to users’ SMS/MMS messages and call details. Toshin also warned Samsung about issues that may have helped bad guys get the SD card content. While Samsung says the vulnerability affects “certain” Galaxy devices, the company appears to be downplaying the scope of the incident. “No issues have been reported globally and users should rest assured that their sensitive information is not at risk. We have addressed the potential vulnerability by developing and releasing security patches through a software update in April and May 2021 as soon as we identify the issue.” Korean company stated. (According to VOV, PhoneArena)

Illustration. According to Hai Duong Police, recently, many mobile subscribers have received messages impersonating financial institutions and banks, sending fake and fraudulent content in order to appropriate people’s money. Through verification and evaluation, the authorities found that these fake messages did not come from the systems of financial institutions, banks and telecommunications businesses, but were distributed through transmitters. fake mobile signal. These are devices of foreign origin, which are illegally traded and used by objects for the purpose of carrying out attacks to spread spam messages to deceive users, especially users in remote areas. urban area. Fraudsters often use fake broadcast devices to send spam messages directly to the phone without going through the mobile telecommunications network. These messages are sent by objects that change source information in order to create trust and deceive users. The message content is often advertising, instructions or contains links to fake websites like official websites of financial institutions, banks to lure and steal users’ information such as accounts, password, OTP code. Many users do not recognize the fake website, so they provide personal information to access the bank account such as entering the account name and password. After the user provides the information, the fake website will redirect to another website or notify the user to wait. The subject uses the user’s personal information to log in to the official website of financial institutions and banks to get the OTP authentication code (if necessary).

First organized by the Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism of Tay Ninh province and Sun Group, the 2021 BaDen Mountain Marathon with the theme “Green Step” took place on April 24-25 at Ba Den mountain. impressed with both the runner community and visitors. On behalf of all athletes, Ambassador Thanh Vu read the opening oath for the run. “Desert steel rose” shared Tay Ninh is the ideal place to jog in the south with fresh air, interesting and challenging but safe training conditions. BaDen Mountain Marathon 2021 excites athletes and surprises athletes with the road starting from the Sun World BaDen Mountain resort square, passing through rice fields, lush forests and floating destinations. the language of Tay Ninh. For most athletes, professional or amateur, the run makes them feel like they are on a special tour designed to build runners’ shoes. The race has attracted the attention and participation of a large number of athletes with a spirit towards a better community; build a generation that loves and takes care of health; urges the community to join hands in preserving and protecting nature and environment through three specific actions “No littering, planting trees, responsible tourism”. The representative of Sun Group – the sponsor and co-organizer of the run – said that in addition to promoting local tourism activities, the group wants to work with the province to create a new playground for sports activities. destroy and spread positive messages about health and green tourism to the community. Although being organized for the first time with the number of athletes up to thousands of people, the preparation from the running track, the epidemic room to the athletes’ support was done thoughtfully by the organizers. In particular, all athletes are offered insurance before the run. Also in the framework of the run, on the morning of April 24, the leaders of Tay Ninh province and Sun Group, the organizer and ambassadors planted more than 140 trees at the tree planting ceremony, contributing to greening the shirt. Mrs. Black Mountain. Many amateurs joining the marathon for the first time expressed excitement when they hit the finish line. With special offers up to 30% exclusively for athletes of Sun World BaDen Mountain resort (belonging to Sun Group), the run is extended to an exciting journey to explore Ba Tay Ninh mountain. Many athletes combine to join the race with their family’s early summer tours, to join their relatives and friends in meaningful sports activities, and at the same time admire the tallest bronze Buddha statue in Asia. lost at the top of the mountain, conquering the roof of the Southern house and enjoying the cuisine “on the cloud”. Nui Ba Den – the famous check-in point in the South – is brilliantly “changed into new clothes” by Sun World BaDen Mountain to serve tourists and athletes on the occasion of April 30. The success of the BaDen Mountain Marathon 2021 race is a bright signal opening the demand stimulating activities of Tay Ninh tourism, creating a motivation for the province to break through to become a new destination attracting tourists in the coming time.

WhatsApp is testing a Beta feature to speed up the playback of voice messages After a short activation, WhatsApp released a new version of Android beta 2.21.9.5 to disable this feature. This is arguably another surprise, because WhatsApp typically tests features for a few months before rolling out to public beta testers. This could be a buggy update from WhatsApp and has been quickly fixed. The interface for this version of WhatsApp has also been changed to better accommodate the new features. An icon appears right next to the voice message to perform accelerated operations that the user wants to hear again. In addition to playback acceleration, another feature also tested by WhatsApp is the ability to delete or make changes to a chat on just one active device without affecting any linked devices other. That is, changes or deletion of any chats through one handset will not be deleted from other linked devices. This is quite confusing because often performing a delete or change operation means that the content the user will not want to save on any device. If this feature is kept by WhatsApp, users will have to delete the chats multiple times on multiple devices. This feature is in line with what WhatsApp introduced previously, which is that each account can be importing up to 4 devices at the same time. However, the log out of all these devices is said to be in development, users still have to go to each device to remove the WhatsApp account. The new features that WhatsApp has introduced well for users to try out may see that it may be coming to many people soon.

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