WhatsApp will not allow you to read new messages if you do not update your application
The company behind WhatsApp is willing to protect privacy and intimacy of its users at all costs, even if this means leaving some of them out of the service At least that is what emerges from the latest known data about the security barriers that have been protecting WhatsApp chats, but that they will force their users to update the aforementioned application if they want to continue receiving new messagesAll this with the sole purpose of keeping the private and secure system
Since 2014, WhatsApp allied with Open Whisper Systems to implement one of their security barriers. With it, it encrypts messages from user to user (end-to-end), so that not even its own WhatsApp, nor any spy or hacker (including government intelligence services) can intercept messages sent and received This security already working at full capacity in WhatsApp. However, the company is improving this issue with a user identity verification system and security control Issues that will force users to update their applications of WhatsApp
And, again, the translation service of WhatsApp has offered advance hints of what is to come.Thus, a translation line shows the obligation to update the application of WhatsApp to a secure version if you want to continue receiving messages. In this way, the company gives an ultimatum to those users who have been outdated or outside of this privacy system... If they want to receive and read messages on a regular basis
According to the translation service, where volunteer users localize application phrases into different languages, WhatsApp will display a message to users with very old versions of this application. It will indicate that a version is being used that does not allow the encryption (encryption) of the messages, without therefore being able to read them. So, if you want to continue to receive protected messages in the future, you'll need to upgrade to a more recent version, whatever the platform.
With this, WhatsApp makes sure that all users are within this encryption system /security you are developing. A measure that will continue to defend the privacy of conversations against attacks by cybercriminals, or even judicial bodies, as recently happened in Brazil
Now, you have to understand that this message from the WhatsApp translation system is still to come. Therefore, it is not a measure already implemented. Thus, users with old versions of the application will be able to continue using them until this measure is carried out Apparently this feature would only affect those users who have been really outdated in the evolution of this messaging application Something not too usual, since WhatsApp used to to force many of your users to update if they want to access the application.
All you have to do is go through the regular app stores of Android or iOS, or through the service web page, and download the latest available version of WhatsApp
