Researchers ask Guardian to retract 'false' WhatsApp story

A group of researchers has published an open letter asking The Guardian to retract a story that claimed WhatsApp has a security 'backdoor'. "Your story was the equivalent of putting 'VACCINES KILL PEOPLE' in a blaring headline over a poorly contextualised piece," said the letter. According to the researchers, the 'loophole' mentioned by The Guardian was a deliberate user-interface trade-off.