Explained — What's Up With the WhatsApp 'Backdoor' Story?

What is a backdoor?

By definition: "Backdoor is a feature or defect of a computer system that allows surreptitious unauthorized access to data, " either the backdoor is in encryption algorithm, a server or in an implementation, and doesn't matter whether it has previously been used or not.

Yesterday, we published a story based on findings reported by security researcher Tobias Boelter that