Collaborate Disseminate
You know how if you report an account on Facebook for identity theft and you prove it, messages from that account are deleted on both ends?
I was wondering if the same thing happens on snapchat when you prove an account is a case of iden… Continue reading Reporting identity theft on snapchat [closed]
I have recently been reading several articles about Signal and (suposedly) how secure it is next to other well-known apps like WhatsApp and Telegram, both of which are claimed to be less private due to both using external servers. I saw he… Continue reading Is Signal still more secure when compared to WhatsApp and Telegram?
I’m trying to be able to receive incoming messages from “the general public”, in a way which:
Does not reveal my identity to the person contacting me, or to any company/entity.
Does not cost money.
Does not use some kind of obscure softw… Continue reading Is there some way in which "normal people" can contact me (one-way) with messages in a secure, anonymous (for me) manner? [closed]
For my personal research, I have to create a messaging app, but security is only important part of application, security from MITM (man in the middle attack), at device end, and at server level. (note: this will not end to en… Continue reading Required a simple guide for secure messaging application
So, in early 2000, ICQ was popular here. “Every kid” with a computer seemed to have it installed. I was not a popular kid, so I probably missed most of this, but I was once invited (or perhaps invited myself) to a kind of mul… Continue reading Was there really a scary default keylogging "feature" like this in ICQ in the year 2000?
How do messengers, like signal or XMPP-omemo messengers, store their messages?
Since the session key is only valid for the current session, how can such extensions like MAM (message archiving on XMPP server) or storing the me… Continue reading Forward secrecy (plausible deniability) and storing messages
The Telegram messaging application apparently stores messages on its servers (at least – that’s what it says in answers to this question here on the site). Is that everything it stores or forwards to a third party? Let me be … Continue reading What does Telegram store (or potentially forward to 3rd parties)? [on hold]
Vulnerabilities like StageFright were identified and fixed a few years back, and any self-respecting company would have taken note of that and examined their software for similar bugs. So it’s surprising that despite the bug … Continue reading What was the security flaw in WhatsApp that NSO exploited?
Microsoft today announced the public preview of its Power Virtual Agents tool, a new no-code tool for building chatbots that’s part of the company’s Power Platform, which also includes Microsoft Flow automation tool, which is being renamed to Power Automate today, and Power BI. Built on top of Azure’s existing AI smarts and tools for […] Continue reading Microsoft launches Power Virtual Agents, its no-code bot builder
WhatsApp’s “Delete for Everyone” feature, meant to allow people to delete files they accidentally sent, works differently on iPhones than it does on Android phones, a researcher has warned. This discrepancy could place senders’ … Continue reading WhatsApp ‘Delete for Everyone’ feature potentially puts user privacy at risk