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"WhatsApp will never be secure," says rival app founder

One of Telegram's founders, Pavel Durov, recently shared an article on the Telegra website stating that "WhatsApp will never be safe," pointing to the recently discovered security breach that allowed hackers to hack into someone else's smartphones with just one call. nor did it need to be answered).
"The world seems surprised by the news that WhatsApp turned any smartphone into spy software," Durov begins by saying that the same situation seems to happen frequently in the Facebook app. "Unlike Telegram, WhatsApp is not 'open source', so there's no way for an investigator to check for 'back doors' in the code. In addition to WhatsApp not publishing the code, they do just the opposite: WhatsApp deliberately overshadows the binaries of your app to ensure that no one is able to study them, "points out Durov.
Little by little, Telegram has gained more and more users for having built the messaging app around the privacy issue. Note Durov that "in almost six years of existence, Telegram has not had any information leakage or vulnerability of the kind WhatsApp demonstrates in the space of months."
"We at Telegram have to recognize our responsibility to shape the future," writes Durov near the end of the article, where he says his goal is to win the "Faceboook monopoly." "The age of greed and hypocrisy will end. An era of freedom and privacy will begin. It's much closer than it looks, "Durov says. Miguel Dias