Delete WhatsApp if you don’t want your photos to be public: Telegram founder

The recent Pegasus attack on Facebook-owned WhatsApp have raised serious questions around privacy of WhatsApp messages including location details and multimedia files. WHile WhatsApp always boasts of End-to-end encryption, the recent Pegasus attack made WhatsApp users appear as sitting ducks. Pegasus was able to successfully exploit a vulnerability in WhatsApp and was able to plant its client for spying on users by simply giving ‘missed calls’ to its targets on WhatsApp. A couple of rings on WhatsApp calls from unknown numbers were all that was required for attackers to install the Pegasus agent in victim’s phone to spy on them.
Now, when it comes to snooping, it is expected that attackers have almost entire access to the victim’s phone. With regards to this, Telegram founder Pavel Durov just said that people should simply delete WhatsApp.
“Unless you are cool with all of your photos and messages becoming public one day, you should delete WhatsApp from your phone,” Durov said on his Telegram channel, according to a report by Forbes.