3 ms·
Asking as a layman unfamiliar with security jargon, do you mean to say that if I ever log in on Whatsapp's web interface, even once, then my Whatsapp app and th
by Santosh83 8y ago
Asking as a layman unfamiliar with security jargon, do you mean to say that if I ever log in on Whatsapp's web interface, even once, then my Whatsapp app and the messages are backdoored?
- Rjevski 8y agoTechnically the key should never leave the web UI (and be discarded once you close the page); but since they control the domain & what they serve, they could serve a malicious version of it that silently exfiltrates that key back to them which they can use later on even after you close the page.