Meta’s WhatsApp just introduced something called Strict Account Settings, a tool “that further protects your account from highly sophisticated cyber attacks.” This is a one-click button in the settings that automatically initiates a series of defenses.
So what does it do? It blocks media and attachments from unknown senders, disables link previews and silences calls from unknown senders. This results in a more restrictive experience, but hopefully a safer one.
The company says this isn’t necessarily for regular users, as conversations are already protected by end-to-end encryption. Instead, this is being pitched as a tool for
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