Flawed reporting about WhatsApp | Open door | Paul Chadwick
by Paul Chadwick from Technology | The Guardian on (#2V58G)
Cumulative effect of missteps led the Guardian to overstate the potential impact on the security of users' messaging
The Guardian was wrong to report last January that the popular messaging service WhatsApp had a security flaw so serious that it was a huge threat to freedom of speech.
But it was right to bring to wide public notice an aspect of WhatsApp that had the potential to make some messages vulnerable to being read by an unintended recipient.
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