TEGUCIGALPA, HONDURAS.-Facebook, WhatsApp and even Instagram, have been somewhat in the middle of the controversy over privacy issues.
WhatsApp belongs to Facebook, so both can be affected by the same problem: more privacy issues than you know.
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Uninstall WhatsApp From time to time, it can be a very good practice if you are one of those who try to protect your network security and we will tell you why.
The reason why you should uninstall it
Recent research has shown that, despite the encryption of WhatsApp conversations, they leave a mark on our smartphone and can be accessed without too many problems. Jonathan Zdziarski, expert in cyber security, He said that although we delete the conversations, their recording is not deleted from the original database, which leaves content that could be accessed in an attack, the BBC reported.
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In practice, encryption is just a word that describes the difficulty of accessing WhatsApp conversations, but the chances of doing so increase every time, says Richard Cassidy, a cybersecurity expert.
By accessing this content, a large part of the files that I assumed I deleted could be recovered or even rebuilt the content through the residues stored in the WhatsApp registry.
A weakness in the security of the application that could lead to another massive data breach scandal, such as the one that affected more than 6.8 million users just a few days ago on Facebook.
How to protect your WhatsApp registry
According to experts, there is only one way to delete this trace from your phone and computer and it is as simple as uninstalling it. WhatsApp occasionally. By doing so, all these temporary files that allowed access to conversations disappear, so uninstalling the application with a certain frequency would mean that at least we do not have full access to our chats.
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On the other hand, and despite the problem it may pose for the practicality of the application, they recommend disabling backups in the cloud, so that when you delete the application there is no trace of the data that was in it.
The latest scandals increase the distrust of the company, which is going through the worst moment in terms of image and will have to work hard on this issue to avoid the loss of millions of users it has been facing for some time now.