Your WhatsApp messages can easily be spied on, and Facebook made sure to keep it that way

In a lot of people's minds, Facebook is this huge cyber villain that gathers data on everyone and keeps tabs, not unlike Orwell's Big Brother. And after coming across some information in The Guardian, we can't really blame them.

Facebook repeatedly claimed that no one can spy on WhatsApp messages, not even its own staff. These claims came after the company was in the hot seat, due to its acquisition of the IM service and its questionable change to WhatsApp's privacy policy. However, a security backdoor has been discovered in the WhatsApp service that allows Facebook ...