Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

WhatsApp Threatens Developers of PC Gateway With Legal Action

Posted by timothy on from the could-ruin-your-whole-day-in-some-countries dept.

An anonymous reader writes "In an apparent reaction to the security vulnerabilities demonstrated by The H's associates at heise Security, the company behind WhatsApp Messenger is taking action against the developers of a library of functions for using the WhatsApp service via a PC. The developers have responded by removing the source code from the web. However, the popular texting alternative WhatsApp still has a major security problem. Attackers can compromise other users' accounts with relative ease, and send and receive messages from another user's account. Forked versions of the code are still available on Github."

3 of 27 comments (clear)

  1. I remember them! by TheSpoom · · Score: 5, Interesting

    One of our clients wanted us to send notification messages over WhatsApp to end users, but they don't have an API and at the time, this third party library was not available. We told them we couldn't do it. Sounds like we avoided a shitstorm.

    --
    It's better to vote for what you want and not get it than to vote for what you don't want and get it.
    - E. Debs
    1. Re:I remember them! by TheSpoom · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Also, let's just all act like github isn't versioned. *whistles*

      --
      It's better to vote for what you want and not get it than to vote for what you don't want and get it.
      - E. Debs
  2. Liability Assurance... by sinij · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Sadly Information Security is now more about offloading liability and then seeking damages than actually delivering secure solutions.