GDG Cloud Southlake 32: Kyle Hettinger: Demystifying the Dark Web
Secret of whatsapp acquision
1. The secret behind the WHATSAPP acquisition.
Facebook Inc. paid $22 billion dollars for fast growing instant
messaging app “Whatsapp”
According to recent statistics Whatsapp has 0.5 billion active users. It
charges $1 charges for one year. If we calculate its profit (0.5 billion x
$1 = $50,000,000). Does it all goes in profit? Of course not, because
they need money in maintaining server and other expenses.
Do all users pay $1 every year? Once again, answer is no. Because, many
people change their whatsapp number after one year or some people
uninstall whatsapp after one year and then download it again with a new
google account and get one more year for free.
According to Facebook Inc. it’s a business deal to increase their
revenue. Let’s suppose for a while that Whatsapp yearly revenue is
$50,000,000 ($0.5 billion) that all users pay $1 yearly and all amount
goes in Revenue. Let’s suppose in coming 2-3 years its yearly revenue
increase to $1 Billion yearly. But still it will take 25 years to complete
only the amount that they paid for it.
I think it is not just a business deal. It’s more than a business deal.
Facebook Inc. is planning something big, very big. I have some reasons
that will prove that it’s much more than a business deal.
2. There is a hidden purpose behind this deal.
1. US government is involved in this purchase.
Why US government involved in it?
US government is always looking for some programs that can be used to
trace people’s activities. They have already launched many hidden
programs to monitor people’s activity but in past it was on Nation level
and this time they planning for something big.
This time they want to monitor all over the world and for this purpose
tracking android phones is a good strategy and to get control over
android phone using Whatsapp as a tool is the easiest way to
accomplish this task.
You may have some questions in your mind, like,
How Whatsapp can steal data? Or How can they use whatsapp for
monitoring purpose? What changes they made in whatsapp to fulfil
their plan?
I will explain you, how it can be happen. Android applications can
interact with each other and also can transfer data used by one app to
another and thus data can be steel.
3. Now let’s see how they can access your phone by using these
permissions.