Telegram founder, Pavel Durov, said users should “delete WhatsApp”
[+] Telegram lives a private life somewhere between the Caribbean and Dubai. He left Moscow a few years ago when the Russian spy agencies wanted backdoor access to Telegram. He denied it and was deemed a hero.
...WhatsApp doesn’t only fail to protect its users’ messages, it is consistently being used as a Trojan horse to spy on their users’ non-WhatsApp content, including photos kept on their phones. Founder of rival app Telegram, Pavel Durov, says people should just delete it. “Unless you are cool with all of your photos and messages becoming public one day, you should delete WhatsApp from your phone,” Durov said on his Telegram channel to his 335,000 followers on Wednesday. It’s a small number, and Telegram’s user base is around 200 million active monthly users versus 1.6 billion for WhatsApp. But Telegram, perhaps due to its size, is not subject to the same hacks and highly publicized security breaches as WhatsApp. Durov made a name for himself not because of the social media network VKontakte that he created in Russia, but because of his defiance of Russian police investigators when they asked for security keys to unlock messages on a phone belonging to someone involved in the 2017 St. Petersburg metro station bombing. Telegram users and tech security geeks lauded Durov’s stand against the authorities, with privacy rights activists last year holding up an image of Durov dressed as a saint.... [+]OLGA MALTSEVA/AFP via Getty Images So it is no surprise that Durov would use the recent backdoor discoveries in WhatsApp as a means to go after his commercial and, in many ways, ideological rival. WhatsApp users were urged this week to update to the latest version of the app after a second security vulnerability was found. The discovery related to a malicious video found in India that would allow hackers to access people’s messages if they shared the video file with people on the app. Facebook says it fixed the bug this week, but warned it was still a problem for people using an older version of the application. To anyone who knows Durov, or at least the character he and his fans have created, he sees himself as fighting spy agencies, an underground defender of privacy. “Facebook has long been part of surveillance programs, long before it acquired WhatsApp,” he wrote, linking to two articles: a 2013 piece on the PRISM software made public by Edward Snowden
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