WhatsApp users might see your photos which they shouldn’t
What is WhatsApp Web?
On 21st January, 2015, WhatsApp announced a new web client which will mirror your conversations live on your phone.
Statistics:
WhatsApp messenger has around 500Millions plus users worldwide, it was bough by facebook for $19 billion dollars.
While WhatsApp tried to battle privacy activist by allowing end to end encryption, it’s new web client has some vulnerabilities which means it shouldn’t be the right time to launch it.
According to Bhuyan, in some situations users of WhatsApp Web can see photos they’re not supposed to view and which they wouldn’t see on the mobile app.
In the WhatsApp mobile app, you can delete a photo from your device after sending it and the recipient will see only a blurred out version of the photo.
WhatsApp mobile app privacyWhatsApp has just rolled out a new service called WhatsApp Web that allows users to sync the messaging app between their mobile devices and desktop, but the new web client has a couple of privacy pitfalls that show it’s not really ready for its close-up.
The problems with the web client, which were reported to us by Indrajeet Bhuyan, a 17-year-old security blogger, undermine privacy settings that work just fine on the WhatsApp mobile app.
According to Bhuyan, in some situations users of WhatsApp Web can see photos they’re not supposed to view and which they wouldn’t see on the mobile app.
In the WhatsApp mobile app, you can delete a photo from your device after sending it and the recipient will see only a blurred out version of the photo.
But Bhuyan reported that a photo sent from his mobile device and then deleted was still visible without the blurring in the web client.
Bhuyan states that it is possible that users of WhatsApp Web view the photos which otherwise they are not allowed to view or are not visible to them on the mobile app.
When you send a photo through WhatsApp mobile app and delete it afterwards from your device, the recipient will be able to view just photo’s blurred out version.
However, Bhuyan states that in WhatsApp’s web client, the sent photo was still visible without any blurring after it was deleted.
