WhatsApp ‘will never be secure’: Russian rival


MOSCOW: The Russian founder of popular messaging app Telegram has warned that WhatsApp, the world’s top messaging app, will continue to be open to surveillance after the Facebook-owned platform had to tell users that their phones could be infected with spyware. 

Pavel Durov, a maverick programmer who created Telegram to offer securely encrypted communications, late on May 15 posted a blog titled “Why WhatsApp will never be secure”. 

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