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The head of Information and Communication Technologies Authority of Turkey said this on Twitter yesterday:
WhatsApp can read your end to end encrypted messages when necessary. It can decrypt your messages by using a golde… Continue reading Does WhatsApp have a golden key to decrypt messages?
I am implementing a chat app which uses Ejabberd as server and it works just fine!
Now I want to store offline messages on server, so enabled mod_offline module and it is working very well.
My questions here are:
1 How much… Continue reading How much safer is storing offline messages on ejabberd XMPP server
The Wire app appears, on the surface, to avoid many of the pitfalls that other messaging apps have – it’s fully end-to-end encrypted, and it’s open source. It supports video calling, and it has clients for smartphones, deskto… Continue reading Is the Wire messaging app secure?
The Wire app appears, on the surface, to avoid many of the pitfalls that other messaging apps have – it’s fully end-to-end encrypted, and it’s open source. It supports video calling, and it has clients for smartphones, deskto… Continue reading Is the Wire messaging app secure?
What about the security of names of people who download the secure messaging apps Signal? Is there some master list that Signal keeps of every subscriber, that they could be forced to share, or could be hacked?
In theory, us… Continue reading Security of Signal download records
What about the security of names of people who download the secure messaging apps Signal? Is there some master list that Signal keeps of every subscriber, that they could be forced to share, or could be hacked?
In theory, using secure apps simply identifies people sending potential sensitive information.
I’ve read here that “[Open Whisper Systems founder Moxie Marlinspike says] that [Signal doesn’t] publish statistics about how many users they have, but Android’s Google Play store reports that Signal has been downloaded between 1 and 5 million times. The iPhone App Store does not publish this data.”
So the iPhone App Store does not publish this data, but this does not indicate whether they record the data or not.
ClearChat is marketing itself as a secure alternative to messaging and collaborative work services like Slack, for use by businesses. Their security marketing (e.g. https://clearchat.com/compare) is based on two main claims:
… Continue reading Is ClearChat end-to-end encryption and user authentication secure?
WhatsApp has “recently” deployed end-to-end encryption using the Signal protocol, which is of course also being used by Signal itself. The related white paper (PDF).
Now this raises the question:
Is there still any security benefit to use… Continue reading Is Signal still more secure than WhatsApp?
The enterprise messaging revolution has come and gone. Enterprise messaging today simply stands as an embedded force driving business. Real-time communication for fast answers, calendar syncing, vivid video meetings and collaboration for seamless revisions don’t simply homogenize past tools — they also revolutionize them. While some still consider enterprise message platforms, such as Slack and […]
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Jami calls itself “ultimate privacy and control for your voice, video and chat communications”. But forums online mentioned in passing (little depth) that it uses bad cryptography protocols and has messy source code. What exactly is insecu… Continue reading How does Jami (formerly Ring.cx) really work, and how secure is it?