10 - The Most Secure Messengers To Keep You Safe
On this show we discuss the big players in secure messengers. Not to spoil the fun, but we both highly recommend Signal.
- Threat Model discussion
- What is our “definition of secure messenger”
- WhatsApp
- Group and individual messages are encrypted
- Uses the Signal Protocol
- Can see metadata
- Meta harvests the data as much as possible
- Facebook Messenger
- Only in secret mode
- Secret mode is one device only
- Developed the same way as WhatsApp
- Threema
- Audited, recently had an issue
- Paid
- Uses usernames, not phone numbers
- iMessage
- Really good if you have Advanced data protection and/or icloud disabled
- iCloud data security overview
- Advanced Data Protection for iCloud
- RCS
- Google is the majority partner
- SMS fallback mode
- How it works
- Signal
- Telegram is BAD
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