Jon Geater, chief technology officer of Thales eSecurity said the concerns raised by Boelter are not as serious as they might appear. “Indeed, there is almost no hack here. One might argue that WhatsApp has elected to provide an insecure default configuration,” Geater said in a statement. “Users who care about the authorities intercepting their messages are quite likely to turn on security notifications, and then the problem is almost entirely diminished,” he said.
