Cumulative effect of missteps led the Guardian to overstate the potential impact on the security of users’ messagingThe Guardian was improper to report in January that the accepted messaging service WhatsApp had a security flaw so serious that it was a huge threat to freedom of speech.
But it was legal to bring to wide public notice an aspect of WhatsApp that had the potential to make some messages vulnerable to being read by an unintended recipient.
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Source: theguardian.com