Facebook plans on "Watsab" and "Ingestram" put all its users in danger

08:34 01.04.2019(Updated 08:44 01.04.2019) Copy link

A group of experts warned against Facebook plans, announced by its founder, Mark Zuckerberg, about the possibility of integrating the applications of Watsab and Intgram into a single copy.

The Australian newspaper The West Australian has published a report from the University of Washington Center for Software Practice, warning against these projects, which it described as putting all site users on "high risk".

"These unified platforms will seriously undermine the privacy of any user seeking to ensure the security of their messages, such as Watsab users, who use them because of their end-to-end encryption techniques," he said. David Glance, director of the center.

Even if Facebook decided to integrate its three messaging applications and supported them all with end-to-end encryption, the technology would be threatened by a failure due to the different systems on which the three applications and software are based, which made it an easy prey for pirates Or chatting.

"The unification of the infrastructure of the three instant messaging platforms significantly weakens their privacy, especially if the infrastructure of the Facebook Messenger application is visible," Glance said.

"By default, if messages are encrypted multiple times, Facebook will not be able to read them when they go through their system, which will prevent Messenger from automatically working on these messages and will not be able to receive them."

"In the sense that if you want to continue exchanging encrypted messages, you have to define from the start an option to start a secret conversation, which is almost nobody, which will make the privacy of all users".

"The integration seems reasonable, but the risk lies in the growing difficulty in monitoring these private spaces between the infrastructure of the three applications," said Tama Lever, associate professor of internet at the University of Toronto. University of Cortin. "This will make the idea of ​​the difference attractive." Users become non-existent and will gradually increase users' doubts about the feasibility of the three applications. "