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O chief executive officer (CEO) Of the Twitter, Elon Musk, published, on May 9, the phrase “WhatsApp cannot be trusted" ("O WhatsApp it is not reliable”, in free translation). The publication was accompanied by another tweet, which showed an image with the messaging application notifying the @foaddabiri, named Foad Dabiri, that your phone's microphone was being used in the background by the WhatsApp. On showmetech, you can see the repercussions of yet another provocative position by Musk No. Twitter. 3n5q5
Who is Foad Dabiri? Learn more about the professional d5u4o
engineering director at Twitter, Foad Dabiri also has experience in telehealth companies, such as WandaHealth — where it started Chief Technology Officer (CTO) and later became CEO — and also in Google — where he was a senior software engineer. In the social network of the little blue bird, dabiri works with machine learning algorithm (ML; machine learning, in free translation), dedicated to platform improvements in notifications, post recommendations, experience and other features.
Na Wanda, his work was important for the company to act in the health management of patients, whose data served as the basis for creating preparedness plans against adverse events. According to his mini-biography, available in his profile on Twitter for him, this care with patient information was important for “improve the quality of care" from Wanda.
His higher education took place in sharif university of technology, based in Tehran (Iran), graduating in Electrical Engineering in 2003. Two years later, in the USA, dabiri studied a PhD in Computer Science at University of California (UCLA) and later, in 2008, he did a post-doctorate. His research in this other graduate program took place in the Embedded and Reconfigurable Systems Lab (Laboratory of Reconfigurable and Embedded Systems, in free translation), sector of UCLA.
What happened on Foad Dabiri's cell phone and caught Musk's attention on Twitter? 3n2c55
In the early hours of May 6th, something strange happened on dabiri. The screenshot published on his profile that same day, at 11:32 am, showed a series of recordings of microphone use by WhatsApp. Outraged by a probable invasion of privacy in the dead of night, the software engineer exposed the situation in his profile on Twitter. You see the original tweet in its entirety and then the translation.
“WhatsApp was using the microphone in the background, while I was sleeping and since when I woke up, at 6 am (and this is just part of the timeline [shown in screenshot]). What is happening?"
Foad Dabiri, via Twitter.
In response to other s, the software engineer said the screenshot is reliable because he uses a Pixel 7. Musk, a day later, at 7:32 am on the 7th, he replies: “This is weird“. That is, even having noticed the publication before, the CEO from the miniblog network just came to use the situation to criticize the WhatsApp today.
The expert who showed the use of the microphone on the cell phone by WhatsApp he is not the only one to notice this situation. The application itself, in April in a publication on the website BetaInfo, indicated that this can happen on devices Samsung e pixel, saying that it is possible to adjust this failure by restarting the cell phone. At the Engadget, Google, in turn, said he was seeing what he could do to better check the bug in the system Android. Regarding the actions taken by the technology company in this case, the Meta stated that the microphone problem has more to do with the Android than with the messaging service.
"We are aware of the issue and are working closely with WhatsApp to investigate the situation."
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By retweeting what Foad Dabiri was complaining about the WhatsApp, Musk declared not to trust the application. However, his criticisms did not end there. In response to a comment that came three minutes after its publication about lack of confidence, the investor Gannon Breslin — CEO plans The Drop, dedicated to non fungible tokens (NFTs) — reinforced the criticism. The following is his full response, followed by a free translation:
“It's amazing how many people don't realize that WhatsApp belongs to Meta/Facebook.”
Gannon Breslin, via Twitter
To give even more relevance to your negative view of the messaging application, Musk No. Twitter reiterated his negative view: “Trust nothing, not even the anything". In response, which you can see below, the WhatsApp stated that he maintained with the engineer who reported the problem. Even the profile of the application said that the “s have full control over microphone settings" fur WhatsApp.
"We believe this is a bug in Android that misinforms the Privacy Dashboard and we have asked Google to investigate and remedy this."
WhatsApp
Continuing in response to the tweet in which he presents the situation of the recording, the WhatsApp reported that the microphones of the app s' cell phones are only accessed in calls, both for voice and video recordings. “Even so, these communications are protected by end-to-end encryption, so the WhatsApp can't hear them“, warned the profile.
Prior to this information disclosed by the application in your profile, the CEO da SpaceX had already tried to draw attention to another messaging application, the Signal, as a way to attack the Meta. Reinforcing the other app took place about a month before the Mark Zuckberg adopt conditions of use that allowed collection of private data. In February, the WhatsApp started to have in its bases addresses of IP and phone number of s, but warned that people would not be affected by the new measures.
And there? What would you do if you noticed this situation on your cell phone? Would you delete the zap? Tell us on showmetech.
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Source: Minibio (Foad Dabiri) | Express | WABetaInfo (via Twitter) | Engadget
reviewed by Glaucon Vital in 10 / 5 / 23.
