Collaborate Disseminate
Over two years after leaving Aol (now known as Oath) back in September 2015 to build a new startup, serial entrepreneur Ryan Block, with co-founder Brian LeRoux, is finally taking the wraps off the new venture: Begin, an intelligent app designed to hel… Continue reading Begin, a new app from Ryan Block, uses natural language to generate tasks from your Slack
The Wire web app can relatively easily lose conversation history completely when the browser’s storage gets deleted or corrupted. The history is also not displayed (though unclear if it’s lost or just kept from the user) when the user logs… Continue reading Is loss of conversation history inherent to end-to-end encryption?
I am using an end-to-end encrypted messenger on my smartphone. However, today I asked myself if the content of the messages is really secure because of the keyboard on my Android device.
As you know, the keyboard makes sugge… Continue reading Does Google have access to keystrokes on our Android device keyboard?
With the presentation of iOS11 Apple introduced a new feature: “iMessages in the cloud”. Now they’ve released iOS 11.3 beta with this feature included. I’ve read a lot of people are waiting for it, which means that almost eve… Continue reading iMessages in iCloud feature = all unencrypted messages on Apple servers. How secure?
Recently I signed on Telegram using my TextNow
number.
When I signed in, I was assigned the profile of an existing user! I have access to the profile of this user, including the contact list of the user, subscribed channels,… Continue reading Security and privacy issues with Telegram
Whether an app like Telegram is secure or not has already been answered and it has recently been confirmed that it is not. Apps like Signal and Cryptocat have been recommended instead. But do these apps also offer a good web … Continue reading Are there any good instant messaging applications with a good end-to-end encryption to its web application?
Since I heard that Telegram stores all the chats including messages, pictures, audio & video material on their servers (cloud) I would like to know how can I delete all of my chats from my phone and also from their server… Continue reading How can I delete Telegram messages from their server? [on hold]
AFAIK, end to end encryption (E2EE) initiates on one device (one platform e.g. android), message reaches the destination and decrypts there. So other devices of mine (like iOS or web client) don’t have keys to decrypt the mes… Continue reading How to implement end to end encryption in multi platform messengers
More specifically and also generally than this related question, I’m curious about the privacy implications of prominent secure messaging apps (marketing themselves as protecting users’ privacy) requiring identification via a… Continue reading Implications of prominent *secure messaging apps* requiring phone number identifiers
If someone on those instant messaging apps for meeting people ask for your number to add you on whatsapp, etc, could this information be used to hack your phone? Or to hack your computer if you are using the desktop version o… Continue reading Is your phone hackable by someone who has your phone number? [on hold]