WhatsApp Fixes Yet Another Group Chat Security Gap
WhatsApp Fixes Yet Another Group Chat Security Gap
Security, Spoken · SpokenLayer
December 19, 20194m 19s
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Show Notes
One of the most popular features of Facebook-owned WhatsApp is group messaging, which turns the app's end-to-end encrypted chats into social groups that can include up to 256 participants. But recent stumbles in group chat security—including a bug that could have let a hacker crash the app entirely—have shown that WhatsApp may need to keep a closer eye on these communal hubs.
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