WhatsApp downloads in India hit as news of Pegasus spyware hogs limelight
Ever since the Pegasus spyware was brought to the public eye by WhatsApp last week, downloads of the app have reportedly come down by a surprising 80 percent in India. Meanwhile, downloads of another end-to-end encrypted app, Signal have gone up by 63 percent to 9,600 during the same period. Telegram messenger (which is based in Russia and offers a secure messaging platform) also saw an increase in downloads in this period by 10 percent, hitting 9, 20,000....