In recent times, WhatsApp has attracted attention for news more tinged with negativity than positivity. Just a week ago the famous messaging app was news for a serious security hole in its desktop application. And over the past year 卢森堡电话号码表, security threats at the Facebook affiliate have increased notably. Not surprisingly, Jeff Bezos was recently in the news for having been the victim of a hack that would have taken root precisely in a message sent through WhatsApp.
Even so, and despite the fact that the security of the app does not seem to go through its best moment, users continue to trust WhatsApp fervently.
Facebook announced yesterday with great fanfare that the app had crossed the border of 2 billion users worldwide. This huge figure means that more than a quarter of the planet’s population communicates today through WhatsApp.
Facebook, the only 2.0 platform that today exceeds WhatsApp in number of users
WhatsApp, which will be 11 years old on February 24, reached one billion users in 2016. Two years later the application expanded its community to one and a half million users.
With 2 million users by its side, WhatsApp is dangerously close in terms of number of users to its “mother” Facebook, which at the end of January boasted of having a community of more than two and a half million users.
Aware that your security is lately in the eye of the hurricane, the application wanted to announce its new record in terms of number of users, emphasizing the protection of the privacy of messages sent and received through its platform.
“Every private message sent using WhatsApp is end-to-end encrypted by default,” the company explains on its blog. “This acts as a digital lock that cannot be broken and that protects the information you send via WhatsApp, helping to protect you from hackers and criminals,” he emphasizes 社交帖子.
