WhatsApp Fails to Properly Delete Your Chats

One of the biggest social messaging service, WhatsApp fails to properly delete conversations of its users, thus allowing attackers and law enforcement a few avenues to recover those deleted chats, found iOS developer Jonathan Zdziarski. The main issue here is  the SQLite database, which many other applications like WhatsApp and many other more mobile apps use to store data on the users phone on which the app is installed. Jonathan  discovered that, whenever a user deletes his WhatsApp conversation, SQLite’s general mode of operation is to mark the data as ‘deleted’ and add it to “free list” of the database entries that can be re-written by

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WhatsApp Fails to Properly Delete Your Chats
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