Análise de segurança sobre aplicativo de mensagem instantânea

Abstract

After the episode of information le akageon NSA (National Security Agency) by Edward Snowden in 2013, which brought topublic a lot of information about some of the surveillance and espionage mass programs, it can be said that there was an awakening on the part of Internetusers aboutthe privacy of your communications in large network.Given the popularity of tools for messaging and increasingvoice traffic on IP in mobile devices, a survey about the safety aspects involved in this type of service as well as an accomplished case study on WhatsApp (focusing on data traffic and privacy breach) wouldresult, in the opinion of this author, in important knowledge to be shared and disseminated to the immense amount of end users of the tool, as well as to students of Forensic Computingarea.ThisTechnicalArticle referred the operation of voice communications over IP, toured the main encryption methods and attributes of information security.To carry out this empirical study an exploratory survey was conducted based onapplied research, on literature review, on known stand ardsand case study followed by its analysis and conclusion.