As a frequent WhatsApp user I don't find this amusing at all. If this is how the engineers handle security issues, it might be time to convince my friends to switch to another messenger. It's not like there was no competition in that field.
I played a little with reverse engineering Kik a while ago. I'm not sure about the messages, but I was able to siphon off the plaintext password using ngrep. It's XMPP, btw.
When they originally launched, they were not using SSL, and were using plain text authentication. Since then, they changed the authentication so it wouldn't be sent in plain text. Then they later added SSL. Then in the middle of last year, they updated their SSL setup so it actually did certificate verification.
It took them a while to get there, but it's secure now.
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As a frequent WhatsApp user I don't find this amusing at all. If this is how the engineers handle security issues, it might be time to convince my friends to switch to another messenger. It's not like there was no competition in that field.
Kik Messenger seems to have been doing very well recently.
Do you know if this can be used with Jabber and if the messages are sent on an encrypted connection to the server?
If not, any good apps that do for Iphone or Blackberry?
I played a little with reverse engineering Kik a while ago. I'm not sure about the messages, but I was able to siphon off the plaintext password using ngrep. It's XMPP, btw.
When they originally launched, they were not using SSL, and were using plain text authentication. Since then, they changed the authentication so it wouldn't be sent in plain text. Then they later added SSL. Then in the middle of last year, they updated their SSL setup so it actually did certificate verification.
It took them a while to get there, but it's secure now.