Musk says WhatsApp 'not secure' amid lawsuit over end-to-end encryption
Elon Musk questioned WhatsApp's security following a lawsuit alleging Meta can bypass its end-to-end encryption.Summary
A lawsuit filed against Meta alleges that its employees can circumvent WhatsApp’s end-to-end encryption and access user messages, despite the feature being presented as secure. Plaintiffs from multiple countries—Australia, South Africa, Mexico, Brazil, and India—claim that access is granted through requests to Meta engineers. Meta has strongly denied these claims, calling them “false and absurd” and asserting that encryption keys remain on users’ devices, preventing unauthorized decryption. SpaceX CEO Elon Musk publicly agreed with the concerns, stating “WhatsApp is not secure” and even questioning the security of Signal, advocating for users to switch to his platform, X Chat. This lawsuit follows previous allegations of privacy vulnerabilities within WhatsApp, including a September 2023 lawsuit by Meta’s former head of security, Attaullah Baig, who cited “systemic cybersecurity failures” and unrestricted access to user data by WhatsApp engineers.
(Source：Newsbytes)