Gabriel H. Nunes@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 days agoWhatsApp messaging app banned on all US House of Representatives deviceswww.theguardian.comexternal-linkmessage-square11linkfedilinkarrow-up1236arrow-down15file-textcross-posted to: [email protected][email protected][email protected][email protected]
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Memo says cybersecurity office deemed WhatsApp a high risk due to ‘lack of transparency in how it protects user data’
minus-squareEcho Dot@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·4 days agoWell I tried searching for “secret exploit nobody knows about”, but it didn’t come up with any results.
minus-squarejust_another_person@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down1·3 days agohttps://www.pcmag.com/news/us-house-bans-whatsapp-on-staffers-devices-over-security-concerns https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/18/world/middleeast/iran-whatsapp-delete.html And to your last comment about not being able to find anything, I don’t believe you even tried: https://www.forbes.com/sites/daveywinder/2025/02/03/whatsapp-hack-attack-confirmed-by-meta-what-you-need-to-know/
Well I tried searching for “secret exploit nobody knows about”, but it didn’t come up with any results.
https://www.pcmag.com/news/us-house-bans-whatsapp-on-staffers-devices-over-security-concerns
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/18/world/middleeast/iran-whatsapp-delete.html
And to your last comment about not being able to find anything, I don’t believe you even tried: https://www.forbes.com/sites/daveywinder/2025/02/03/whatsapp-hack-attack-confirmed-by-meta-what-you-need-to-know/