Beware before downloading Club House .. Despite its success, these are its most prominent security flaws
The "Club House" application invaded the virtual world and attracted millions in a short time to reveal its worlds and what it holds again.
Clubhouse CEO Paul Davison said at the end of February that the app now has more than 10 million active weekly users, which means that the application's user base has reached five times in one month.
However, in the midst of this mass migration, it is easy for users to ignore the threats that the application can pose to their digital privacy, so why should you think twice before installing the application on your phone and what are the most prominent security flaws that appeared in the application according to Sky News
1- Beware of installing the wrong app:
When the famous billionaire and entrepreneur (Elon Musk) started a series of tweets through his account inviting people to join him in a conversation via the app, including Russian President Vladimir Putin, many began looking for this app, specifically people looking to invest in everything new.
Unfortunately, in the midst of the research, they went in the wrong direction, as they confused the voice chat application with another application called (clubhouse.io), but it is for managing projects, as investors rushed to buy shares in this application whose trading index in the financial markets jumped to more From 1,000%.
2- Clubhouse app is available for iPhones only:
So far, the Clubhouse app is currently only available to iPhone users in the App Store, so users of Android phones who want to install the app on their phones will have to check the official app website every period and the other to see if it has been launched in the Google Store Play.
3- Privacy issues in the app are still being discovered:
Given that the Clubhouse application is still in its first beta version, many security flaws and loopholes have emerged that still appear successively, as many digital security experts have published many alerts about the application that do not guarantee user privacy.
Where researchers at Stanford Internet Observatory (SIO) discovered in mid-February that user IDs and chat rooms are sent to servers in plain text, and the same report also stated that Agora, which has branches in many countries of the world, including China, which is the main provider of servers The one that launches the app has access to users' raw audio files, but that hasn't been confirmed yet.
4- The possibility of hacking accounts:
After you officially register on the Clubhouse app, you will be asked to grant permission to access your phone's contact list. If you refuse, you will not be able to invite anyone and then you will not be able to take full advantage of the app.
In addition, this privacy policy allows developers to transfer this data to a very wide range of third-party companies, such as: advertising companies, marketing agencies as well as law enforcement agencies.
