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The most popular messaging app WhatsApp, owned by Meta, has announced a new feature called “Secret Code” that allows users to secure private discussions on the platform with a unique password.
It is an "extra way to protect those chats and make them harder to find if someone has access to your phone or you share a phone with someone else" this is how the feature has been characterized.
Secret Code expands on Chat Lock, an additional feature that WhatsApp unveiled in May and which relocates chats to a distinct folder accessible only with a device password or biometric.
The goal is to provide customers with an extra degree of anonymity by having separate passwords for these encrypted chats than the one used to unlock the phone, according to WhatsApp.
“It is additionally claimed that "You'll have the option to hide the Locked Chats folder from your chat list so that they can only be discovered by typing your secret code in the search bar".
This development occurs a few weeks after WhatsApp unveiled its "Protect IP Address in Calls" function, which uses its servers to route calls while hiding users' IP addresses from third parties.
"When a call is placed, also follows calls by the French government urging ministers, secretaries of state, and cabinet members to refrain from using popular messaging apps like WhatsApp, Signal, and Telegram in favor of homegrown alternatives like Tchap (based on the Matrix protocol) and Olvid by December 8, 2023.
A leaked document was used in the news, which was first reported by Le Point. It observed that these digital tools are not free of security flaws which means they do not guarantee the security of conversations and information shared through them.
Meredith Whittaker, president of Signal, retaliated against the decision made by the French government by saying, "This claim is not backed by any evidence, and is dangerously misleading esp. coming from gov." WhatsApp CEO Will Cathcart agreed, stating, "We are of the same opinion."
