Don't share your location with your friends on WhatsApp

  • 19 April 2014
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A group of budding security researchers at the University of New Haven (UNH) in Connecticut, USA, recently taught themselves a handy lesson about the difference between liking something and trusting it.
The starting point of this story is a public admission, by students in the UNH Cyber Forensics Research & Education Group, that they "think WhatsApp is a great application."
WhatsApp, in case you aren't a fan yourself, is an online instant messaging service for phones and tablets that has the primary selling point that it allows you to exchange messages without having to pay for SMSes.
If you're hooked on SMSing, and you send 1000 messages a month at 10 cents each, that is, indeed, quite a selling point.
 
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