Pavel Durov attacks WhatsApp’s encryption claims, but his broadest charge goes too far

Telegram founder Pavel Durov has accused WhatsApp of running a “giant consumer fraud,” arguing that many users wrongly assume all their WhatsApp data stays protected by end-to-end encryption. His criticism focuses on cloud backups, which can fall outside WhatsApp’s core in-transit encryption unless users turn on a separate encrypted backup option. That part of the […] The post Pavel Durov attacks WhatsApp’s encryption claims, but his broadest charge goes too far appeared first on VPN Central.