WhatsApp Encrypts Backed Up Messages to the iCloud

[Bot]

While some law enforcement agencies would like nothing more than for encryption to vanish from the world, especially for messaging apps, WhatsApp has silently added another layer of security to its systems.

More specifically, WhatsApp has added encryption for messages backed up on the iCloud. This should greatly increase security of its users against hackers and, why not, government spies.

End-to-end encryption was introduced by WhatsApp last year, preventing intercepted messages from being read, therefore rendering them useless. Until recently, however, chats that were backed up by iPhone users to the iCloud were in readable form, the Telegraph reports.

It's true that iCloud accounts are already encrypted, but someone with Apple's decryption key would be able to access the entire communication history of any user. So could hackers of any kind.

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[Tony Cole]

If people honestly believe MI5, MI6, CIA, GCHQ and the NSA have the time to go through millions of emails and messages on a daily basis then they need a brain transplant. They would need millions of staff to do that each and everyday it's impossible. Just like political correctness gone mad, due to Ed Snowden this privacy stuff has gone mad/crazy.

 

[Ink]

They would need millions of staff to do that each and everyday it's impossible.

Computers.

 

[generalwu]

Finally, they sure did take their time on this.

I'm sure they have their mega quantum computers working on all the traffic now.

Maybe they employ Aliens to do the job while at it, haha.

 

[vinylmeister]

Computers.

Yes, and because they can, they will do it.