Police can spy on your WhatsApp, intercept, intervene with Trojans

A new law in Germany gives the police the power to read or spy on WhatsApp conversations of suspicious users, using malicious software.

Indeed, that you WhatsApp is tapped by the police it is already a reality in that country. They can make use of malware, specifically a trojan, for intervene or intercept WhatsApp of people potentially involved in crime.

Trojan to spy on WhatsApp and PCs

By using a Trojan, the police can prick or hack a device and gain access to all the user’s private information. These include WhatsApp chats and other similar messaging apps. It can also be video recordings and other personal content. It has not been mentioned whether they can also tap WhatsApp calls, although it would not be strange, considering that the CIA can do it by evading the encryption of this and other apps.

The law does not only apply to mobile devices such as smartphones or tablets. The police also have the power to hack computers in the same way through the Trojan.

This invasion of the device can be done remotely. The law allows the police to obtain a complete copy of the equipment’s storage, or to search for information within it if required.

How they intercept or click WhatsApp

Certainly, applications such as WhatsApp or Telegram offer encryption to prevent chats from being read by third parties. But this Trojan would give the police the possibility to obtain information before this data encryption takes place. In other words, it bypasses this app security.

This law will not only try to detect terrorist activities, but also others of an illegal nature. For example, drug trafficking, tax evasion or sports betting fraud.

What has been an open secret now seems to gain legal backing to spy on people. The CIA and NSA have been doing this for years, not just in the United States but around the world. In the case of the German authorities, previously they could spy on SMS and conventional phone calls, according to RT.

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