Switching to Telegram, Facebook Phobia.

Mohammad Aljeemaz, BDA Researcher.

In Kuwait at least, the Kuwaitis had long last relationship

could be described as win-win affordable peaceful

communication services with WhatsApp Messenger, it is a

cross-platform mobile messaging app which allows you to

exchange messages without having to pay for SMS. Available

for iPhone, BlackBerry, Android, Windows Phone and Nokia,

besides those phones can all message each other uses the

same internet data plan that you use for email and web

browsing, there is no cost to message and stay in touch with

your friends.

Facebook Inc Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg will take a victory lap at the world's

largest mobile technology conference in Barcelona on March 3rd, after beating out Google

Inc in a $19 billion acquisition of free messaging service WhatsApp. But he is facing a new

arduous race on the horizon.

The Facebook deal for WhatsApp drew attention for its whopping price tag, but has also

brought out fresh criticism over security for the billions of messages delivered on the

platform. Yet security researchers and others point out that there may be vulnerabilities in

the system used by some 450 million people globally. Paul Jauregui at the security firm

Praetorian said in a blog post Thursday that WhatsApp security and encryption are not

ideal, citing vulnerabilities in the way it handles SSL, the secure socket layer protocol for

communications. The group’s mobile security test “picked up on several SSL-related

security issues affecting the confidentiality of WhatsApp user data that passes in transit to

back-end servers,” Jauregui said. “This is the kind of stuff the NSA (National Security

Agency) would love. It basically allows them — or an attacker — to man-in-the-middle the

connection and then downgrade the encryption so they can break it and sniff the traffic.

It seems at least in Kuwait that not everyone was delighted by Facebook’s $19 billion

acquisition of the popular messaging service WhatsApp, with the news sparking a wave of

defections to the competitor Telegram service.

The Telegram app already seems to be picking up a load of thousands new users in GCC

countries and dumping WhatsApp.