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WhatsApp is constantly trying to bring new features to its more than 2 billion users worldwide, especially when it comes to protecting the security and privacy of your
WhatsApp is constantly trying to bring new features to its more than 2 billion users worldwide, especially when it comes to protecting the security and privacy of your data and conversations. We recently mentioned that WhatsApp blocked the ability to take screenshots of profile photos, and now the company wants to remind us of this every time we enter a chat. this conversation is protected.
The instant messaging platform uses end-to-end encryption for chats, Only users who are part of the chat can access the content of the chat and read messages. This makes conversations truly private, and an upcoming update to the app will confirm that no one else can read our chats.
A new feature has been discovered in the latest development version or beta version of WhatsApp (version 2.24.6.11). Starting from this version, when entering a chat with a person or group, a lock icon below the person (or group) namealong with a message: “end-to-end encryption.”
This icon notifies all participants in the call that: the chat is completely protected by this type of encryption. But the icon and message do not stay there forever, after a few seconds it disappears and is replaced by the indicator of the last time you communicated online. They discovered this icon on WaBetaInfo and revealed what it looks like in the app.
This is what the WhatsApp icon warning about end-to-end encryption looks like (Image: WaBetaInfo)
This feature is still under development but is rolling out to all beta users. final launch will be soonthus this icon is available to all users of the messaging platform on both Android and iOS.
End-to-end encryption is a privacy system that protects the content we send on this app (and other platforms) by: to put it quickly and simply, the messages, images and videos we send to another person have the key, and the app on the receiving user’s device has the key to decrypt the message.
Once this token reaches all users we can quickly verify that the chat is encrypted. On the other hand, there is another way to do this that already exists: During a conversation with a person or a group, we click on his name and then click on Encryption. Once there the app will verify that the chat is encryptedIt’s something we can manually check by comparing a 60-digit number between both devices or scanning a QR code.
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