“WhatsApp not only does not protect your messages in the messenger, this application is constantly used as a Trojan horse to monitor your messages and photos in third-party applications,” he wrote in his Telegram channel.
According to Durov, WhatsApp problems are related to the policy of Facebook, which owns the messenger.
In September, Edward Snowden, a former employee of the US National Security Agency (NSA), said that using WhatsApp and Telegram instant messengers is “extremely dangerous” for senior officials.