This post is inspired by conversations I had with two people recently. Someone called me and asked me to assist in “hacking” a phone number so this person could ‘read’ the WhatsApp messages of the phone number in question. I told this person that WhatsApp chats were difficult to hack. On the other hand, another person told me of how the person’s WhatsApp was ‘hacked’ and the individual was reading messages and this was only noticed months after. We have therefore decided to show you how to check if someone else is snooping in on your conversations. First off, let me state that WhatsApp messages are end-to-end encrypted   meaning that messages you send out are difficult to read elsewhere. There are still ways by which one can mirror your chats and be viewing them elsewhere. It is important we keep our phones close to us and locked so as to reduce the chances of being snooped on. For some of us who are mostly on our PCs, we tend to mirror our phones on our PC so we ...

image courtesy WhatsApp So Facebook Inc finally decided to get on the dark train and rolled out dark mode for WhatsApp. Remember that most other apps including Instagram were already introduced to dark mode which has become very popular among users so it was no surprise that users quickly switched to the dark mode on WhatsApp once it was introduced early March after beta testing on both android and iOS. “It’s designed to reduce eye strain in low light environments. And we hope it helps prevent  those awkward moments where your phone lights up the room.”   WhatsApp said on their blog If you are crazy about dark mode like I am and you want all your apps to be on dark mode including WhatsApp then here’s how you can switch to dark mode ASAP. For Android 10 and iOS 13 users you can set dark mode by enabling it in the system settings. The first step, of course, is to update your WhatsApp app, go on to your app store and do that then follow the instructions ...