"Easy Decryption Shows That Chat-App Designers Should Improve the Ways They Protect Users' Personal Data"
A*STAR researchers were able to recover decryption keys for popular instant-messaging applications WeChat and WhatsAPP, which could allow users' personal data and information to be collected. A mobile forensics method called information flow analysis was applied by researchers to discover the decryption keys for the current and future versions of WeChat and WhatsApp. This article further discusses the experiment and preventive measures.
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