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Introduction Messaging application plays a major role in sending and receiving messages from all over the world. One such application is the Whatsapp which lets the user send and receive messages, audios, videos, voice call and even video calls. This application is made available for Android and other Smartphone users. You can even make a call with your friends across the world using Whatsapp. The app uses your mobile internet connection that your cellular plan’s voice minutes. Since a large number of people are using Whatsapp application, there is a lot of issue in the application which everyone is facing. One such issue is the security risks which allow the third party to read and intercept the messages in the application. Even though Whatsapp announced in recent public statements, checking fingerprints will not solve the problem nor will check the mailbox in Whatsapp settings panel. Encryption It is a process of converting the original messages into encoded messages from the sender to the recipient in order to prevent the third parties from stealing the information. The concept has been in use since thousands of years to encode the written messages. But now, the modern methods of communication can be encoded automatically with complex coding techniques. With this technique, people can now able to send and receive a lot of data between the devices. All the data’s, whether it is a voice call, text messages or mobile data’s, is managed by whichever service provider whose service you are using. The data encryption varies depending on the policy of the company who provide the service. If the user is likely to message through Whatsapp than the text message, the mobile operator is not in charge for encrypting the Whatsapp data. It hardly provides you with the connection to the wider internet, the connection that lets the application such as Whatsapp, Twitter, and even Facebook to send messages throughout the world. How end-to-end encryption works? Whatsapp end-to-end encryption technique is important since it does not allow the third party to interfere with the Whatsapp user’s privacy sent on its own platform. When the user sends a message it can only be unlocked by the expected recipient. This application is different from the other messaging application, which does the encryption between the sender and the receiver. This says that the messages are stored on the servers, but not permanently, so it could be accessed and read. Significance of end to end encryption End to end encryption is important in Whatsapp application, which means that they and no party like police, governments, hackers and other users can intercept and read your messages. The concept has been introduced since as a company they believe in your right to have private conversations when the user uses this service. The reason behind the decision is it’s getting a lot of attention in high profile cases in which the communication service providers such as Facebook are put upon by the authority to release sensitive personal data. High profile case is the FBI which asks the people to unlock the underlying integral values of many large communication companies when it comes to personal data, encryption, and security. Why is encryption necessary for an application? Smartphone messaging services plays an important role in providing security to the application. Facebook messenger encrypts only the messages between your device and the servers. This means that Facebook could be committed to confessing private messages. The same policy has been applied to Instagram and Whatsapp which is owned by the Facebook. Whatsapp disclosed that it will start to sharing data with its owned company Facebook in order to draw in referring to the platform. Third party companies will be able to send the targeted messages directly to the Whatsapp users should they accept the new terms and conditions. Whatsapp will now share its user’s mobile numbers with Facebook to offer advertisements. It’s clear to note that the platform has to make its offering after a few years of providing free service. Facebook will receive the information in order to target with an advertisement on the Facebook platform. It is important to note that Whatsapp has to acknowledge some of it privacy values. If the user doesn’t like to share additional information like mobile number cross-platforms, here’s how to opt out of Whatsapp adverts. Whatsapp security issues Whatsapp security vulnerability that can be used to let the Facebook users and others interrupt and read the encoded messages have been found in its Whatsapp messaging service. Facebook says that no one can hack Whatsapp messages including the company and it’s staff members to ensure privacy for it end users. But research says that the company could read the messages due to the way by which Whatsapp has implemented its end to end encryption technique. Privacy supporter says that it is a huge threat and it could be used by the government sectors as a backdoor to snoop on users who think that their messages are kept safe and secure. Whatsapp has determined privacy and security as a primary selling point and it has become a go-to communication tool for activists, dissidents, and diplomats. Whatsapp end to end encoding confide on the generation of unique security keys, by using Signal Protocol that is verified between the users to safeguard the communications and it cannot be read by the third party users. Anyhow, it has the capacity to force the generation of new encryption keys for offline users. This is known to the sender and the recipient, and to make the sender do the re-encryption messages with new keys and send them again for any messages that have not been marked as delivered. The recipient is not aware of the change in encryption technique while the sender is only notified if they have chosen into encryption warnings in settings and only after the messages have been sent again. This technique allows the Whatsapp to intercept and read the messages from the user. Conclusion Though Whatsapp uses a public

In this era of technology, some gadgets have become an inseparable staple of everyone’s life. One of those gadgets is a smartphone. Business, fun, study, browsing, navigational mappings, social interactions, virtual training and what not can be done with the help of these phones. Just name it and you have it as a Panacea for all your needs. The smartphone comes with an inbuilt operating system which makes it capable of performing a uncountable number of functions. The computer is one popular example being run with the help of the operating system. Smart mobiles are nothing but portable computers that could fit in one’s hand. The only difference between a computer, a simple cell phone, and a smartphone is the mobile application. There are a plethora of applications developed for these phones which can be downloaded from app stores. Smart mobiles are your personalized digital diaries which keep you organized and updated with important dates and days of your loved ones. Another highly useful feature of these phones is wi-fi connectivity. The Internet is playing an important role in every field and all the campus, cafeteria, office buildings are completely wi-fi enabled. You can get yourself connected and gain access to internet at any point of time. Some interactive messengers like Skype, yahoo, whats app are quite popular and now available as an application on smart mobile. It enables users to interact with their relatives and friends who are far apart from them. Skype users can call each other for free and can buy talk time at a very nominal rate to call on landline numbers. Yahoo and whats app enables its user’s exchange pictures, videos and views for free. Smartphones now come with high-resolution cameras. Even a low-cost smartphone has a 2 Megapixel camera in it. There are phones available in markets which range from 5 to 13 megapixel cameras and high definition display.GPS tracking is another prominent feature which is helping businessmen to a great extent. It doesn’t only help you guide the way and provides maps of the area you want to reach but also tracks the current location of your employees. In this way, you can keep a record of whereabouts of your resources.Emerin Elite SmartPhones are androids cell phones with superior features and advanced technologies. The low elite handset is must for people who require smart yet affordable mobile. Smartphones have contributed a lot in making an individual’s life easy. Its increased set of users has replaced many things from everyone’s routine e.g. wrist watch, newspaper, map, laptop, and organizer. Today’s phones can perform all those functions efficiently which the above-mentioned things can do. With smartphones, a businessman can edit his presentation, a student can take virtual classes, a kid can play games and a homemaker can see the recipe of her favorite chef on youtube at any hour of the day.

The nature of modern economy has rapidly shifted since the onset of the Great Recession. In place of traditional ‘9-to-5’ jobs, many working people in the United States and across the world have started ‘gig’ careers. These gigs comprise multiple part-time jobs that workers cobble together to make up or exceed the previous salaries that they were paid for ‘9-to-5’ jobs. There are both upsides and downsides to this shift towards Gig Economy; a glaring negative is the lack of stability. Moreover, if you have a family, working multiple gigs means your take-home pay varies from week-to-week, which can make family planning difficult and subject to minor downturns in local economic circumstances. For instance, say you depend on working as a rideshare driver (i.e. as a Lyft or Uber driver) for 40% of your income per week, but there is a terrible snowstorm in your town shutting roads down for the better part of a week; this situation will mean that your income will drastically decline during the week, making bill payments and paying for necessities very difficult, especially if you have a family. On the other hand, if you think of yourself as a creative, and have a passion and drive for pursuing a career in the arts, the gig economy can provide a nice income cushion to further the pursuit of your dreams. For example, let’s say you want to create comic books, but you have talent at digital design as well, allowing you to complete part-time projects for tech firms that want to re-design their websites. By accepting these part-time jobs, you can still focus on creating comic books half of the time, while generating an income that you can invest in your comic book career. In summation, the Gig Economy has fundamentally changed the economic landscape of the modern world, and in the future more and more workers will want to or have to pursue gigs as their paths. That being said, living as a gig worker requires some financial alterations that many traditional workers do not have to experience, namely for taxes. If you are a gig worker, you will have to file taxes in the U.S. as an independent contractor. Taxes and tax filing for independent contractors are much complex and frequent than for traditional salaried workers. Therefore, my startup, FormSwift, which is a SaaS platform that helps entrepreneurs and organizations efficiently fill out and share online business and legal forms, decided to create an essential guide to taxes and business for freelancers. Our guide works for freelancers around the world, although the tax portion is specific to people that do gig work in the U.S. In summation, with our guide, we hope that we can bring a little more stability to financial and life planning for gig workers, so that you can focus more on growing your career and opportunities for the future! By Jackson Hille, a Content Associate for FormSwift and 2014 graduate of the University of California, Berkeley.