That library is only as secure as your phone, and if it’s backing up to the cloud, it’s not secure. First, make sure that you are not saving your photos in the regular photo library on your phone. If you’re not using the status feature, but are using WhatsApp messaging to send nudes, there are two things to think about. WhatsApp status is rolling out now for all your encrypted pic needs. The main downside is that you have to remember to set your status to only be seen by a specific contact. Nothing is saved in your photo library and the whole status system is encrypted.
You can choose to share things only with a specific contact in the “Status Privacy” feature, which only effects posts you make after turning that on. You can add emojis, draw, add captions, send GIFs - it’s basically an encrypted Snapchat now, has some attractive features for sending nudes. The new “status” feature allows users to send encrypted photo and video status updates that disappear after 24 hours. You can just go into the account section in settings and turn off “share my account info,” and you’re good. The only thing to remember about WhatsApp is that it is now part of Facebook, so check to make sure that WhatsApp isn’t sending info to Facebook for advertisements. And although it used to be text-only, WhatsApp now lets you send encrypted photos and videos. WhatsApp launched end-to-end encryption in April 2016, so when you send a WhatsApp message, it’s automatically locked with unique keys, and then only unlocked when your recipient reads it. So the best things you can do are avoid the cloud and use end-to-end encryption unless you invest in a phone designed for security. So every time you send nudes, you’re taking a risk – most people aren’t going to have their phones directly hacked, but things like cloud storage and data carriers.
“A hacker can naturally see photos on the device where the intended recipient can see them, if that device is hacked,” Karsten Nohl, founder of Security Research Labs, a hacking research firm in Berlin told Inverse. The main risk you can’t control when sending nudes is that no matter how good your encryption, if your phone itself is hacked, there’s not much you can do.
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