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“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 to his 335,000 followers on Wednesday. It’s a small number, and Telegram’s user base is around 200 million active monthly users versus 1.6 billion for WhatsApp.
Durov made a name for himself not because of the social media network VKontakte that he created in Russia, but because of his defiance of Russian police investigators when they asked for security keys to unlock messages on a phone belonging to someone involved in the 2017 St. Petersburg metro station bombing. Telegram users and tech security geeks lauded Durov’s stand against the authorities, with privacy rights activists last year holding up an image of Durov dressed as a saint....
WhatsApp users were urged this week to update to the latest version of the app after a second security vulnerability was found. The discovery related to a malicious video found in India that would allow hackers to access people’s messages if they shared the video file with people on the app. Facebook says it fixed the bug this week, but warned it was still a problem for people using an older version of the application.
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