Those WhatsApp chats you thought you had deleted aren't actually deleted
It has been revealed that if you own an iOS device, parts of your Whatsapp conversations may not have been deleted from your phone, a security researcher has said.Jonathan Zdziaraki a researcher who specialises in the Apple operating system said in a blog "forensic trace of all chats is left on the device even when the chats have been deleted, cleared, or archived."He went on to say that deleted Whatsapp chats could be recovered using forensic tools as the information had not been overwritten on your device.Zdziarski says "Simply preserving deleted data on a secure device is not usually a significant issue, but when that data comes off the device as freely as Whatsapp's database does; it poses a rather serious risk to privacy."As part of his research, the Zdziarski analysed SQLite records stored on a test phone database once messages had thought to be deleted.
Your WhatsApp chats never get deleted actually
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Your WhatsApp chats are not fully deleted even if you delete them
The popular cross-platform messaging app, WhatsApp isn't fully deleting the user deleted messages from its servers.This was discovered by an independent iOS researcher, Jonathan Zdziarski.Over a billion+ people use WhatsApp mostly from developing nations like India, China, and Brazil.
WhatsApp doesn't delete chats on iPhone, deleted messages can be recovered : News, News
WhatsApp has won laurels for its stance on privacy and particularly for the end-to-end encryption that the app recently enabled.But the encryption doesn't mean that the WhatsApp messages are out of sight from the prying eyes.The loophole within the app means that even the deleted messages can be recovered because WhatsApp doesn't really delete the chats when used on an iPhone.
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