Perhaps WhatsApp is less secure than we think. She has been commissioned to proclaim from the rooftops its encrypted point function to, however, it seems that things in the pipeline left. It is not the first time that the controversy of WhatsApp affects privacy, nor will be the last. However, on this occasion messages (iMessage) Apple is also affected by the same problem. Some computer security engineers have come to the conclusion that WhatsApp and messages share a security flaw and should fix it as soon as possible. Apple and WhatsApp are lately in a major cycle of updates, so we do not believe that they delay too.
The discoverer has been the engineer Jonathan Zdziarski, who said this:
The latest version of WhatsApp can obtain extracts of all your chats, even after having them deleted, cleaned or archived. Even if you use the function “clear all chats”, you can access them. In fact, the only way to eliminate device our chats is completely remove the device application.
Jonathan believes that no matter the method of elimination that we use, will remain there. However, posts by Apple suffers from the same fault.
The problems are related to any application that uses SQLite. Do not delete the information, just evacuate it to a “Free List”, but these data are not overwritten after moving, so it is possible to access these data. These data are stored by other applications even for months. In the case of Apple messages messages are stored in a library from iCloud, so you can access them even after you have them removed, even if you get rid of the phone, there will be for some time.
Seems that these failures of security not are too serious, and am sure of that both Apple as WhatsApp it etiquette in the less time possible.
