WhatsApp already has 10 million users in Spain
That the social network of messaging WhatsApp is one of the most used in smartphones is nothing new. However, thanks to the expertise of some users it has been possible to find a closest number of people who have installed this app on their phones. And not only that, but also certain information from their profilesSomething that shows that this social network is widespread and whose security does not make it too difficult for third parties to intrude
Specifically, it has been the page Security by Default who has managed to discover that, currently, Spain has almost 10 million WhatsApp users To be more exact, at the beginning of February there were 9,832,654 telephone numbers registered by this network social A not insignificant figure that shows the extent of free messages over the Internet, but also thelack of security of this system And, from the same website, they explain how they have managed to obtain this information.
As soon as you start WhatsApp, the application does an automatic check of the contact list of the user.With this, it checks who has the application installed in order to communicate. This verification is carried out by comparing the data of the terminal and those stored on the WhatsApp servers But this is where security fails , as this data transmission is not sufficiently protected for users with advanced knowledge of programming and a curious attitude. When all this data is obtained, telephone numbers and other interesting information is obtained, such as the status phrase
When this is done, all that remains is to cross the telephone numbers captured from the WhatsApp servers with the Spanish mobile prefixes, information that the CMT, Telecommunications Market Commission, makes public on its web page This information is useful to know to which telephone companies each number belongsThe final result of this entire process is a list of 9,832,654 telephone numbers in Spain linked to WhatsApp, and a longlist of status phrases with all kinds of references.
The level of security with which it has WhatsApp can be worrying , although it is also true that the company continues to work to prevent information leaks or the intrusion of third parties And it is that, for example, before With the latest updates, it was also possible change the statement of account status Apart from this, it seems that the information that can be collected from this type of processYou can only focus on spam or junk messages
Be the social network for mobile phones most famous has its good and bad pointsA clear example of this is how easy it is to be trending topic or the most commented topic on another of the social networks of the moment, Twitter A few minutes before midnight, the WhatsApp service went down again , preventing sending and receiving messages for half an hour. Enough time for Twitter to create the tag or hashtag WhatsApp where thousands of users commented what happened.
