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      Pluie d’arnaques sur WhatsApp : voici comment les repérer pour mieux les contrer [Sponso]

      news.movim.eu / Numerama · Sunday, 17 March - 07:08

    Cet article a été réalisé en collaboration avec Bitdefender

    Sur internet, aucun canal n’échappe aux hackers, pas même les messageries instantanées. Heureusement, quelques bonnes pratiques limitent les risques.

    Cet article a été réalisé en collaboration avec Bitdefender

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      WhatsApp identifie les tchats sécurisés, en attendant d’accueillir Snap, Telegram ou iMessage

      news.movim.eu / Numerama · Monday, 11 March - 13:18

    WhatsApp procède à une modification de l'affichage pour inclure une mention relative au chiffrement de bout en bout par défaut -- qui est en place depuis 2016 sur la messagerie. Avec l'interopérabilité, qui va autoriser des discussions avec d'autres applications, WhatsApp veut rappeler quels sont les tchats bien sécurisés.

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      How long should it take to answer a Whatsapp? About a fortnight | Nell Frizzell

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Monday, 4 March - 11:00

    Real friends don’t expect instant feedback. They know you’re busy slicing potatoes or loading the washing machine

    Few things bring me greater joy than someone taking two weeks to reply to a WhatsApp message. I mean it. This week, my friend and former teacher replied to a message I sent asking after his knee, with a very friendly and funny message. It had taken him a mere 24 days to respond. Glorious.

    Not only does that kind of slack immediately take any pressure off me to reply there and then, while trying to simultaneously slice a potato, open a box of magnets for my son, load the washing machine and turn down the radio; but it proves the two of us have enough mutual affection and respect that, at some point, we can just pick up where we left off. Have I replied to him yet? Of course not. I’ve had cables to untangle and rice to boil. But I will.

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      WhatsApp finally forces Pegasus spyware maker to share its secret code

      news.movim.eu / ArsTechnica · Friday, 1 March - 20:27

    WhatsApp finally forces Pegasus spyware maker to share its secret code

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    WhatsApp will soon be granted access to explore the "full functionality" of the NSO Group's Pegasus spyware—sophisticated malware the Israeli Ministry of Defense has long guarded as a "highly sought" state secret, The Guardian reported .

    Since 2019, WhatsApp has pushed for access to the NSO's spyware code after alleging that Pegasus was used to spy on 1,400 WhatsApp users over a two-week period, gaining unauthorized access to their sensitive data, including encrypted messages. WhatsApp suing the NSO, Ars noted at the time, was "an unprecedented legal action" that took "aim at the unregulated industry that sells sophisticated malware services to governments around the world."

    Initially, the NSO sought to block all discovery in the lawsuit, "due to various US and Israeli restrictions," but that blanket request was denied. Then, last week, the NSO lost another fight to keep WhatsApp away from its secret code.

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      Crimes involving child abuse imagery are up by a quarter in UK, says NSPCC

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Friday, 1 March - 07:00

    Nearly half of incidents where platform was known occurred on Snapchat, with 26% on Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp

    Crimes involving child abuse imagery (CAI) have risen by a quarter in the past year, according to figures collated by the NSPCC.

    Nearly half of those incidents where the platform was recorded occurred on Snapchat, while Meta’s family of apps, including Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, covered another 26%.

    In the UK, the NSPCC offers support to children on 0800 1111, and adults concerned about a child on 0808 800 5000. The National Association for People Abused in Childhood ( Napac ) offers support for adult survivors on 0808 801 0331. In the US, call or text the Childhelp abuse hotline on 800-422-4453. In Australia, children, young adults, parents and teachers can contact the Kids Helpline on 1800 55 1800; adult survivors can seek help at Blue Knot Foundation on 1300 657 380. Other sources of help can be found at Child Helplines International

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      Court orders maker of Pegasus spyware to hand over code to WhatsApp

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Thursday, 29 February - 19:53

    Israeli company NSO Group is accused in lawsuit by Meta’s messaging app of spying on 1,400 users over a two-week period

    NSO Group, the maker of one the world’s most sophisticated cyber weapons, has been ordered by a US court to hand its code for Pegasus and other spyware products to WhatsApp as part of the company’s ongoing litigation.

    The decision by Judge Phyllis Hamilton is a major legal victory for WhatsApp, the Meta-owned communication app which has been embroiled in a lawsuit against NSO since 2019 , when it alleged that the Israeli company’s spyware had been used against 1,400 WhatsApp users over a two-week period.

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      To my horror, gen X is turning to voice notes – I don’t want to hear your mini-podcast | Emma Brockes

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Thursday, 29 February - 10:00

    They appear on your phone uninvited, overlong and often three at time. This isn’t a message. It’s a one-woman show

    There is a joke in the first season of the HBO show Hacks, pitched by Hannah Einbinder’s gen Z character, Ava, to her boomer employer, Deborah Vance: “I had a horrible nightmare that I got a voicemail,” she says. Ha – gen Z hates voicemail; boomers don’t understand jokes without punchlines. “What?” shrieks Jean Smart’s Vance. Ha – everyone’s disgusting, and no single generation will give an inch to another.

    Sorry to insert gen X into the mix, but in the context of this particular flashpoint, we need to talk about voice memos. (Or audio messages, or voice texts, not to be confused with voice-to-text, which is something else entirely – all right, Grandma?)

    Emma Brockes is a Guardian columnist

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      Comment créer un passkey (clé d’accès) pour WhatsApp

      news.movim.eu / Numerama · Wednesday, 28 February - 14:20

    WhatsApp app Une

    Sur Android, WhatsApp autorise désormais l'emploi d'un passkey pour se connecter à son compte. Pour iOS, la fonctionnalité arrivera plus tard. La configuration et l'emploi d'une clé d'accès dans la messagerie instantanée sont simples.