{"id":19557,"date":"2021-04-13T18:35:49","date_gmt":"2021-04-13T16:35:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/159.69.82.204\/win\/?p=19557"},"modified":"2021-04-13T18:35:49","modified_gmt":"2021-04-13T16:35:49","slug":"why-you-should-quit-whatsapp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/2021\/04\/13\/why-you-should-quit-whatsapp\/","title":{"rendered":"Why you should quit WhatsApp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: left; margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px; display: inline\" src=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/GOFTuwe.jpg\" align=\"left\">If you observe Facebook's WhatsApp from a view or a data protection activist or a security expert, you should have dropped that messenger (I dumped that thing in 2018 due to GDPR reasons). During the past WhatsApp has a steady stream of huge security issues. I just link here to the Forbes article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/zakdoffman\/2021\/03\/06\/stop-using-whatsapp-after-facebook-apple-imessage-signal-and-telegram-privacy-backlash\/?sh=63609f4e33e8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Why You Should Quit WhatsApp As Critical New Update Confirmed<\/a> from March 6, 2021. Now we have the next nail in the coffin: Forbes has uncovered a nasty new surprise for WhatsApp's 2 billion users today. Security researchers has discovered an alarming security risk. Knowing a phone numer is suffizient, to allow a remote attacker to deactivate easily WhatsApp on a phone and then stop users getting back in. Even two-factor authentication will not stop this. Details may be read within <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/zakdoffman\/2021\/04\/10\/shock-new-warning-for-millions-of-whatsapp-users-on-apple-iphone-and-google-android-phones\/?sh=69f0de5c7585\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">this Forbes article<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you observe Facebook's WhatsApp from a view or a data protection activist or a security expert, you should have dropped that messenger (I dumped that thing in 2018 due to GDPR reasons). During the past WhatsApp has a steady &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/2021\/04\/13\/why-you-should-quit-whatsapp\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[580],"tags":[69,431],"class_list":["post-19557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-security","tag-security","tag-whatsapp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19557\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}