Thread On WhatsApp (Be Careful / Do’s & Don’ts / Updates / News / Awareness)

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How do we know if we become default admin of any whatsapp group?

If admin leaves a group, someone randomly becomes admin of that group

Now, thats risky considering current government laws.

Now a days too many whatsapp groups and cannot delete also, as major groups are related to business.

I think, whatsapp must take this on a serious note and start alert message, as soon as any other member becomes default admin.


If dimers agrees that whatsapp should take this on a serious note, then please vote and create awareness. Also update solutions for such concern……
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Just sharing below case for reference:
https://thelogicalindian.com/news/whatsapp-grou...

21-year-old Junaid Khan has been behind bars for the last five months over an alleged objectionable message forwarded by somebody else on the instant messaging service.

In February, Junaid, a second-year BSc student and a resident of Talen town in Rajgarh district of Madhya Pradesh, was taken into custody by local police after an alleged anti-national message was posted on a WhatsApp group, where he was the default admin. On 14 February, he was booked under IT Act and Section 124 A (sedition) of the Indian Penal Code, as reported by NDTV.

Became admin by default
It all began when the original administrator of the WhatsApp group, identified as ‘Irfan’ had posted a message. Some locals took objection to it and filed a complaint at the Talen Police station. Subsequently, a case was filed against Irfan and the ‘admin’.

According to Junaid’s family, the original administrator left the WhatsApp group after the objectionable forward, and Junaid ended up as the default admin. “Junaid was a member of the group, but not the admin. When the matter came to light, he was in Ratlam on family work. It was then that the admin left the group and another member became an admin by default. However, he too quit. Junaid became group admin by default. However, he was not the admin when the post was originally shared,” Farukh Khan, Junaid’s cousin told The Times of India.

Farukh also added that his cousin could not sit for his examinations as the court did not grant him bail because he had been booked under sedition.

Meanwhile, the police have been justifying their action based on the evidence they had at that time. “Junaid’s family members did not say this when he was arrested. Now, after the challan has been put up in court, they say he was the ‘default admin’. If they have any evidence, they should produce it in court. Irfan, too, was arrested and when the matter came to our cognisance, Junaid was the admin of the group. There was no evidence or any other way to ascertain at that time who was the admin of the group when Irfan shared the post. We filed the challan by the evidence available with us,” Pachore Police Station-in-charge, Yuvaraj Singh Chouhan told The Times of India.

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From irfan and junaid and the SP i remembered the series common man family man 🤣🤣 anti-national he ye log
Unless he have money or vip contacts i don’t think he will be released easily. Feeling bad for his “luck”
Time to make other people group admins for my groups🤭

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The Family Man

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WhatsApp Has Already Has That Feature To Track Down The Original Group Owner.
Open Any Group. Goto Group Description. You Will See Created By – xxxxxx (Mobile Number) On So And So Date.
Why Cant Police Catch The Original Group Created And Question Him.

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Valid.

But, still alternate problem still there.
At once, default admin have to suffer.

So, if whatsapp can have a feature, which gives an alert message to default admin, then atleast that can be a permission based admin.
As of now, default admin (new) do not know when he becomes admin.

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A thread for updating latest loopholes for various social media platform. This might help to create quick awareness

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WhatsApp Has Another Security Loophole; Here’s How to Keep Yourself Safe

The Indian Computer Emergency Response Team recommends that all WhatsApp users upgrade to the app’s latest version to avoid any security threats.

Facebook had recently issued a warning for its popular instant messaging app Whatsapp, when it discovered a new security threat that allowed hackers to access someone’s data simply by sending them a malicious video file as a message. In fact, even the recent Pegasus scandal that affected journalists, politicians, and human rights activists in India, all it took was missed WhatsApp call to let the spyware snoop on victims. Now, with this new security loophole, victims will receive a malware-laden video file from an unknown number which will play like any other normal MP4 media file, but give the hacker access to the victim’s phone in the background. The Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In) is advising citizens to update to the latest WhatsApp version immediately. “Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow a remote attacker to cause Remote Code Execution (RCE) or Denial of Service (DoS) condition, which could lead to further compromise of the system,” CERT-In said.

For more details: https://www.news18.com/news/tech/whatsapp-safet...

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This news was happened a week back. VU for the awareness bro plus1

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ohk.

By the way, reason behind this thread is to keep posted on overall such concerns…

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wew ; this is risky stuff

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😲😲😲

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Why there is elections thumbnail ?

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The new call waiting feature will now let a user see an incoming WhatsApp call even if they are already on a call.
The new feature will allow users to accept or reject the new call. …
The feature is available with the new WhatsApp version 2.19.352 that can be downloaded from Google Play store.

https://www.indiatoday.in/technology/news/story...

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Whatsapp will completely stop working on all Windows-supported phones from 31 December, 2019.

The popular messaging app will also not work on a number of Android and iOS phones from 1 February, 2020

Android phones running on Android 2.3.7 operating system and iPhones running on iOS 7 will not support WhatsApp from next year.

Moreover, the FAQ also emphasised that these older version of Android and iOS operating systems “can no longer create new accounts, nor re-verify existing accounts after February 1, 2020.”
https://www.livemint.com/technology/apps/whatsa...

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Can you help updating topic – “Thread: Whatsapp Related Awareness + Do’s & Don’ts”

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WhatsApp Will Sue Businesses That Bombard Users Will Bulk Messages
WhatsApp will take legal action against individuals or companies that are misusing the WhatsApp Business App and WhatsApp Business API to send bulk messages.

https://www.news18.com/news/tech/whatsapp-will-...

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Keep title same as: Thread On WhatsApp (Be Careful / Do’s & Don’ts / Updates / News / Awareness)
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Whatsapp to stop working on some phones from January 2020: Check if you need to upgrade soon
WhatsApp has released a list of the operating systems that will not be supported by WhatsApp starting 2020. The list includes old iPhones and Android phones.

https://www.indiatoday.in/technology/news/story...

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Which accounts are considered abusive?
An account that registered five minutes before attempting to send 100 messages in 15 seconds is almost certain to be engaged in abuse, as is an account that attempts to quickly create dozens of groups or add thousands of users to a series of existing groups.

By Using the on-platform information available within WhatsApp, the company has found and stopped millions of abusive accounts from operating on service.

What action will be taken?

WhatsApp will take legal action against companies for which we only have off-platform evidence of abuse if that abuse continues beyond December 7, 2019, or if those companies are linked to on-platform evidence of abuse before that date.

The platform, on an average, bans over two million accounts per month for bulk or automated behaviour and over 75% of those accounts did not have any recent user reports.

https://www.zeebiz.com/technology/news-whatsapp...

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Beware: New WhatsApp bug crashes group chat, deletes history forever

Security researchers on Tuesday said they have detected a serious vulnerability in WhatsApp that led to group chat crash the moment a destructive message was introduced by the hackers in the chat, leading the entire group chat history being deleted forever.

Urging all users to update WhatsApp to the latest version, security researchers at global cybersecurity firm Check Point identified the flaw that would allow a bad actor to create a malicious group message to crash Facebook-owned WhatsApp on users’ devices.

Since there was no remedy, all members of the group were forced to uninstall and reinstall WhatsApp in order to regain full use. The group chat could not be restored after the crash occurred.

The bug has now been fixed. The company issued a fix to resolve the issue which is available since WhatsApp version number 2.19.58.

https://www.freepressjournal.in/technology/bewa...

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Timer option can be managed by admin of Whatsapp Group
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WhatsApp’s ‘Delete Message’ feature will automatically delete the messages and make it seem like the message never existed (WABetaInfo page)

The Delete messages feature will be available for group chats and only accessible to administrators
Apparently, the feature will work as ‘cleaning tool’ for group chats

https://www.livemint.com/technology/apps/whatsa...

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Now you can MUTE chat for ever (always) ; this replaces the option to mute a chat for a year.

also offering redesigned storage management page.

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thnq

i don’t need to follow any thing, no whatsapp, no headache sunglasses

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WhatsApp has received the approval in India to go live with a payment feature on its messaging platform using the Unified Payments Interface.

Read more at:
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/techn...

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