Subj : whatsapp = bad for your smartphone health
To   : Ogg
From : MRO
Date : Sat Oct 08 2022 02:29 pm

 Re: whatsapp = bad for your smartphone health
 By: Ogg to MRO on Sat Oct 08 2022 08:52 am

>  M> what do you mean whatsapp stores user passwords in the clear?
>  M> they are encrypted.
>
> One of the other articles mentioned that up until 2016 the app
> didn't encrypt the pw or manage the keys properly.


i don't think they know that for sure.  they probably salted them somehow.

there's a lot of services that didnt protect passwords properly. sony saved them in plain text. so did POF for a long time. dropbox has been compromised.

you can not expect to be safe.
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