How Can Keep Safe/Tips WhatsApp Chats. Loopholes in WhatsApp Security/Chats With Solutions

 How were these WhatsApp chats leaked? Are the messages that you write on WhatsApp safe? Can someone else read them? 

What does that mean? How can they get leaked? And how can you keep them safe and private?

Let us start right at the basic- the WhatsApp messages that you send are said to be ended to end encrypted. What does that mean? 

1) What are the loopholes that allows a Third person to read your messages. 

There are 3 loopholes.

Loophole is the backup of your WhatsApp messages group

The First loophole is the backup of your WhatsApp messages group. A lot of you would know that there is an option to back up chats in WhatsApp

You can keep a backup of all chat history on Google Drive or iCloud to access later But most of you would not know that the back up involves the removal of end-to-end encryption. If you keep a backup on, you are keeping your messages at risk that a hacker can hack into them or anyone else can read them.

Solution is keep Backup Off so How?

A simple solution to avoid this is to keep your backup off Go to settings and keep all the different types of backups off. If you want to remain end to end encrypted on WhatsApp.

This is the exact loophole that is suspected in the case of Deepika Padukone Investigative agencies took her phone and cloned it and forensic experts retrieved the old data of her phone which had Google Drive and iCloud backups. where WhatsApp chats were saved.

WhatsApp Groups

WhatsApp's groups are end to end encrypted But if a person that you don't want is added, he can read your WhatsApp messages. What's even more problematic than that is that invite links of WhatsApp group scan be sent somewhere else Say you make someone else the admin of your WhatsApp group he can invite someone else by sending the invite link and if that invite link is pasted on some non encrypted website, or sent through SMS or pasted publicly anywhere then anyone can click on the invite link and can join your WhatsApp group and read the chats of the WhatsApp groups

The simple solution to this is to avoid WhatsApp groups especially the ones in which you're not an admin. Anyone can join the WhatsApp group and read chats through an invitation link of the group.

If someone snatches your phone physically, or your phone gets stolen

The Third is that if someone snatches your phone physically, or your phone gets stolen. He can open your phone and access your messages because your phone has been physically stolen. In such a case, what can you do to ensure your security and avoid the loophole?

Put a passcode on your phone putting a passcode on your WhatsApp is even better. These days you can put in your face ID or touch ID in iPhones.

You can put in biometric authentication so that another passcode is required to open. WhatsApp even if someone steals your phone, first he should know the passcode of your phone before he can access WhatsApp another loophole is WhatsApp groups. 

I'd Like To Yell You Tips to protect Your data and Your privacy

Tips To Protect Your Data And Your Privacy

Keep Update The Latest Version

First- keep your phones updated to the latest software because most of the time a loophole is found in a software it is on older versions. Hackers target the older versions because it is easier to look for loopholes there.

Off Auto Download System

Second- the auto download option on WhatsApp that automatically downloads photos and videos Keep it off. Because if you get a message from an unknown number, say they send you a virus in the WhatsApp message then it gets automatically downloaded and gets saved in the photo gallery and the virus automatically gets downloaded in your phone Also, keep all the apps in your phone because it is easier to look for loopholes in older versions.

Don't access all permission

Whenever an app asks for permission to access your photos and contacts, Then do not grant all the permissions Because not all permissions are required all the time. If there is an app that does not have anything to do with your photos but it asks for access to all your photos and contacts, then what is the need to grant that? Deny that access. 

This is fairly easy to do in the iPhone If you scroll down, you can see all the permissions that you have granted to the app.