"Durov noted at the time that WhatsApp was designed for surveillance purposes and was tailored to the needs of US government agencies like the FBI." via RT The latest vulnerabilities discovered in the WhatsApp messenger are a reminder that the Meta-owned product is first and foremost a surveillance tool, the man behind the competing Telegram app has warned. Pavel Durov blasted WhatsApp in a post on Thursday. It came in response to a developer's report about two new flaws discovered in its programming. Both vulnerabilities allow an interested party to plant malware on a device running WhatsApp. A user needs to answer a video call or play a specially crafted video file to be exposed, potentially giving hackers full access to his or her phone. According to Durov, the new discoveries fit a long pattern of WhatsApp posing a critical security risk to users. He explained that "it's almost certain that a new security flaw already exists there" because such vulnerabilities are "planted