Hi, I'm Max Belleg Day. And I'm George Clark and welcome to The Useless Hotline.

TikTok wasn't working out for us, we decided to set up our own little business.

We did and the Useless Hotline is a place where we help you with your queries, no matter how

we are discussing or embarrassing they are. As you may have already guessed, this episode is a special

one because it's brought to you by ACAS Creative and WhatsApp from Meta,

whose built in layers of protection mean that you never have to depend on only one defense.

With tools like Chatlock, view once two-factor authentication, privacy checkups, silence, unknown

call as an end-to-end encryption, we can message privately knowing that nobody, not even WhatsApp,

can read our messages.

Oh, that's right, George. And today we're doing things a little bit differently because

we're going to be playing behind the lock, a series of games inspired by WhatsApp's privacy

tools that are designed to get us digging into the contents of our real, usually private chats.

It's game time, baby. Game one, chatlock and swap.

But what is chat lock, Max?

So chat lock is a feature.

I forgot your name then.

Chatlock, Max.

So chatlock is a feature on WhatsApp, which basically means that you can put a lock on a specific chat.

Whether that is like a group chat or just a single chat, you can basically put an access code

so that anybody who might have your phone password can also get into your WhatsApp chats.

Genius.

I think that's really useful because if you think about it, like I leave my phone around in

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