Whatsapp

[2BDriver]

http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/talkingtech/2017/03/27/whatsapp-what-you-need-know-popular-messaging-app/99680780/

WhatsApp: What you need to know about the popular messaging app  

Brett Molina , USA TODAYPublished 10:29 a.m. ET March 27, 2017 | Updated 2 hours ago

Minutes Before the London terror attacker carried out the deadly rampage near Westminster Bridge, he used this app to communicate with an unknown contact. Susana Victoria Perez (@susana_vp) has more Buzz60

The assailant involved in last week's London terror attacks that killed four and wounded dozens more reportedly used WhatsApp, the Facebook-owned, encrypted messaging service.

Britain's Home Secretary Amber Rudd said she wants WhatsApp and other messaging services to make these platforms more accessible to authorities in cases like the London attack.

“We need to make sure that organizations like WhatsApp — and there are plenty of others like that — don’t provide a secret place for terrorists to communicate with each other,” she said in interviews Sunday. In a statement, WhatsApp said they were "horrified" by the attack and were "cooperating with law enforcement as they continue their investigations."

Because the app features encrypted messaging, officials are unable to access attacker Khalid Masood's last message or its recipient.

 

London terror attacker used WhatsApp, the encrypted messaging app, before rampage

 

If you don't use WhatsApp — or even if you do — here are some things to know about it.

It's a very popular messaging app owned by Facebook

More than 1 billion people in over 180 countries use WhatsApp, created in 2009 as an alternative to text messaging. According to a May 2016 report from research firm SimilarWeb, WhatsApp is the top chat app in 109 countries, including Brazil, India, and the United Kingdom. Facebook acquired WhatsApp in 2014 to make a bigger play in the rapidly-growing messaging market, along with its own Messenger platform. At the time the deal was announced, WhatsApp had 450 million users worldwide.

WhatsApp uses end-to-end encryption

While Apple was fighting the FBI last year over unlocking an iPhone used by assailants in the San Bernardino, Calif., attacks, WhatsApp rolled out end-to-end encryption. All messages sent through the platform are secured in a way that only the sender and the recipient can view the message. According to WhatsApp, not even they can hack their platform to view the message. Several other platforms including Apple's iMessage and Signal also use end-to-end encryption.

It also uses two-factor authentication

Like many other services such as Google and Facebook, WhatsApp uses two-factor verification, rolled out earlier this year. When enabled, a user must type in a second passcode — often a numeric code sent to the user's phone via text message — to access their account. If, say, a hacker were to gain access to a user's credentials, they would still need that second passcode to view the account or messages.

[Rayleigh]

 

Whatsapp has a similar function now. You can set a daily backup to google drive.

 

Google Drive? This feature is only available for android, correct?

[Watwheels]

http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/talkingtech/2017/03/27/whatsapp-what-you-need-know-popular-messaging-app/99680780/

WhatsApp: What you need to know about the popular messaging app  

Brett Molina , USA TODAYPublished 10:29 a.m. ET March 27, 2017 | Updated 2 hours ago

Minutes Before the London terror attacker carried out the deadly rampage near Westminster Bridge, he used this app to communicate with an unknown contact. Susana Victoria Perez (@susana_vp) has more Buzz60

The assailant involved in last week's London terror attacks that killed four and wounded dozens more reportedly used WhatsApp, the Facebook-owned, encrypted messaging service.

Britain's Home Secretary Amber Rudd said she wants WhatsApp and other messaging services to make these platforms more accessible to authorities in cases like the London attack.

“We need to make sure that organizations like WhatsApp — and there are plenty of others like that — don’t provide a secret place for terrorists to communicate with each other,” she said in interviews Sunday. In a statement, WhatsApp said they were "horrified" by the attack and were "cooperating with law enforcement as they continue their investigations."

Because the app features encrypted messaging, officials are unable to access attacker Khalid Masood's last message or its recipient.

 

London terror attacker used WhatsApp, the encrypted messaging app, before rampage

 

If you don't use WhatsApp — or even if you do — here are some things to know about it.

It's a very popular messaging app owned by Facebook

More than 1 billion people in over 180 countries use WhatsApp, created in 2009 as an alternative to text messaging. According to a May 2016 report from research firm SimilarWeb, WhatsApp is the top chat app in 109 countries, including Brazil, India, and the United Kingdom. Facebook acquired WhatsApp in 2014 to make a bigger play in the rapidly-growing messaging market, along with its own Messenger platform. At the time the deal was announced, WhatsApp had 450 million users worldwide.

WhatsApp uses end-to-end encryption

While Apple was fighting the FBI last year over unlocking an iPhone used by assailants in the San Bernardino, Calif., attacks, WhatsApp rolled out end-to-end encryption. All messages sent through the platform are secured in a way that only the sender and the recipient can view the message. According to WhatsApp, not even they can hack their platform to view the message. Several other platforms including Apple's iMessage and Signal also use end-to-end encryption.

It also uses two-factor authentication

Like many other services such as Google and Facebook, WhatsApp uses two-factor verification, rolled out earlier this year. When enabled, a user must type in a second passcode — often a numeric code sent to the user's phone via text message — to access their account. If, say, a hacker were to gain access to a user's credentials, they would still need that second passcode to view the account or messages.

 

There are many ways to communicate. If they break whatsapp terror attackers will move on to other platforms. On the other hand if there's no encryption terrorist can make use of hackers to hack into vip accounts and plot the attack on them. What will they comprain about next? There's no end to it.

 

[Watwheels]

http://www.asiaone.com/singapore/beware-theres-scam-involving-hacked-whatsapp-accounts

 

 

Has someone on your contact list asked you for your WhatsApp account verification code recently?

Watch out, a scammer may be making use of your contact's compromised WhatsApp account to make that request, the police said in a press release on Wednesday (April 18).

 

Once scammers get hold of the SMS verification codes, victims would lose access to their WhatsApp accounts.

 

Another variant of the scam reported overseas saw scammers deceiving people on their victims' WhatsApp contact lists.

 

They were asked to send the passwords of gift cards they had purchased to the scammers, which allowed them to sell the gift cards online.

The police advised members of the public to adopt the following crime prevention measures:

• beware of unusual requests received over Whatsapp even if they were sent by their contacts;
• call their friend personally to verify the authenticity of the request;
• protect their WhatsApp account by enabling the app's 'two-step verification' feature

For scam-related advice, call the National Crime Prevention Council's anti-scam helpline at 1800-722- 6688 or visit www.scamalert.sg.

 

 

Mark Z, go congress and say sorry!

[inlinesix]

Move to Telegram, Line or Kakao

[Mustank]

For moi ish WeChat

[carloverguy2017]

For Android, whatsapp number don't change even if you change your SIM card.

 

For iPhone, whatsapp will ask you to register for new account the moment it detects a change in SIM card.

 

That;s why I keep insisting iPhone sucks.

In fact if you uses laptop overseas with hotel room wifi connection, you can use WhatsApp Web instead.

I always use WhatsApp Web.

 

And because you use Google to link all devices, everything on your Android appears on your Laptop.

Super convenient.

 

Apple.. ? Forget It ....

[zipping]

https://www.hardwarezone.com.sg/tech-news-whatsapp-said-be-working-introduce-ads-ios-app

 

 

 

 

WhatsApp said to be working to introduce ads in the iOS app

By Cookie Monster - on 1 Oct 2018, 12:05am

If you are using WhatsApp on the iPhone, ads could be coming your way soon! 

WABetaInfo, who has a solid track record of providing accurate information about upcoming WhatsApp features, claims that Facebook is already working on introducing ads to the iOS version of the instant messaging app.

Ads will reportedly appear within the WhatsApp Status where you typically share photo and video montages to your contacts. It is not known how these ads will be targeted. Facebook could associate phone numbers with user profiles on the social networking site.

The ad feature is said to be still in testing phase and may take a while before it is implemented. As and when that happens, users may flock to other instant messaging apps such as Telegram. 

Source: WABetaInfo via PhoneArena

 

[Blueray]

WhatsApp restricts message-sharing to fight fake news

 

 

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-46945642

[Ysc3]

tried not to update but the app just stopped when time was up.

[Ysc3]

Apparently the limitation does not apply to videos.