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SECURE MESSAGING APPS COMPARISON The objective of this site. I created this site to enable people to compare many so-called “secure messaging apps”. Likewise, I hope to educate people as to which functionality is required for truly secure messaging. In 2016, I was frustrated with the EFF’s very out-of-date comparison, and hence I decided to create a comparisonmyself.
SECURE MESSAGING APPS COMPARISON April 5, 2021. April 4, 2021 by Mark. We rarely pause to reflect upon how encryption entered the public domain. Prior to the late ’70s, encryption was a domain for the military, with very little utility for the average person. Computers were expensive hobbies for cashed-up geeks, ARPANET was the Internet, and mobile phones weren’t even adream.
SECURE MESSAGING APPS COMPARISON Secure Messaging Apps Comparison. Please read the Ratings and About/FAQ pages before contacting me. At least 1/3 of emails that I receive ask questions that I have answered in either page. I often receive far too many emails to which I can respond, especially when secure messaging apps are in the media. I do read them all, though.Name *. First.
SECURE MESSAGING APPS COMPARISON Secure Messaging Apps Comparison. Date. Change. Reason. 04/10/2016. First release of the site. 06/10/2016. "Does the company provide a transparency report" for Signal changed from "No" to "Yes". Open Whisper Systems have effectively published a transparency report. SECURE MESSAGING APPS COMPARISON 1. An adversary could trick users into downloading the app from a malicious app store. Category: Spoofing. Description: Justification: . WHY FREE SPEECH IS IMPORTANT FOR DIGITAL PRIVACY We rarely pause to reflect upon how encryption entered the public domain. Prior to the late ’70s, encryption was a domain for the military, with very little utility for the average person. Computers were expensive hobbies for cashed-up geeks, ARPANET was the Internet, and mobile phones weren’t even a dream. What I have written below A RESPONSE TO THE ESAFETY COMMISSION’S END-TO-END With Australia’s eSafety Commission — a federal government statutory body — in the news lately, I though I’d tackle a topic that’s been bothering me for many months. In February, 2020, the eSafety Commission released a position statement on end-to-end encryption. As I wrote earlier, the position statement could be renamed to, “Reasons Why the THE ROAD TO DIGITAL SERFDOM: AUSTRALIA’S GOVERNMENT “With government legislation, it’s rare that legislation is repealed (e.g., “hate speech” laws), rare that nonsensical or failed government programmes are closed down, and rare that governments decrease in size, power, and influence. For digital privacy, this natural cadence of ever increasing government power can only mean more legislation against citizens’ digital privacy and SECURE MESSAGING APPS COMPARISON This site compares secure messaging apps from a security & privacy point of view. These include Facebook Messenger, iMessage, Skype, Signal, Google Allo, Threema, Riot, Wire, Telegram, and Wickr. The best secure messaging app? SECURE MESSAGING APPS COMPARISON Apple iMessage. Apple were implicated as an NSA partner in the Snowden leaks. Apple’s general record in digital privacy is poor/mixed. For example, Apple have been paid by Google to set iOS’ default web browser to Google. iCloud is not encrypted. Encryption uses weak cryptographic primitives, and perfect forward secrecy is notimplemented
SECURE MESSAGING APPS COMPARISON The objective of this site. I created this site to enable people to compare many so-called “secure messaging apps”. Likewise, I hope to educate people as to which functionality is required for truly secure messaging. In 2016, I was frustrated with the EFF’s very out-of-date comparison, and hence I decided to create a comparisonmyself.
SECURE MESSAGING APPS COMPARISON April 5, 2021. April 4, 2021 by Mark. We rarely pause to reflect upon how encryption entered the public domain. Prior to the late ’70s, encryption was a domain for the military, with very little utility for the average person. Computers were expensive hobbies for cashed-up geeks, ARPANET was the Internet, and mobile phones weren’t even adream.
SECURE MESSAGING APPS COMPARISON Secure Messaging Apps Comparison. Please read the Ratings and About/FAQ pages before contacting me. At least 1/3 of emails that I receive ask questions that I have answered in either page. I often receive far too many emails to which I can respond, especially when secure messaging apps are in the media. I do read them all, though.Name *. First.
SECURE MESSAGING APPS COMPARISON Secure Messaging Apps Comparison. Date. Change. Reason. 04/10/2016. First release of the site. 06/10/2016. "Does the company provide a transparency report" for Signal changed from "No" to "Yes". Open Whisper Systems have effectively published a transparency report. SECURE MESSAGING APPS COMPARISON 1. An adversary could trick users into downloading the app from a malicious app store. Category: Spoofing. Description: Justification: . WHY FREE SPEECH IS IMPORTANT FOR DIGITAL PRIVACY We rarely pause to reflect upon how encryption entered the public domain. Prior to the late ’70s, encryption was a domain for the military, with very little utility for the average person. Computers were expensive hobbies for cashed-up geeks, ARPANET was the Internet, and mobile phones weren’t even a dream. What I have written below A RESPONSE TO THE ESAFETY COMMISSION’S END-TO-END With Australia’s eSafety Commission — a federal government statutory body — in the news lately, I though I’d tackle a topic that’s been bothering me for many months. In February, 2020, the eSafety Commission released a position statement on end-to-end encryption. As I wrote earlier, the position statement could be renamed to, “Reasons Why the THE ROAD TO DIGITAL SERFDOM: AUSTRALIA’S GOVERNMENT “With government legislation, it’s rare that legislation is repealed (e.g., “hate speech” laws), rare that nonsensical or failed government programmes are closed down, and rare that governments decrease in size, power, and influence. For digital privacy, this natural cadence of ever increasing government power can only mean more legislation against citizens’ digital privacy and SECURE MESSAGING APPS COMPARISON April 5, 2021. April 4, 2021 by Mark. We rarely pause to reflect upon how encryption entered the public domain. Prior to the late ’70s, encryption was a domain for the military, with very little utility for the average person. Computers were expensive hobbies for cashed-up geeks, ARPANET was the Internet, and mobile phones weren’t even adream.
SECURE MESSAGING APPS COMPARISON Secure Messaging Apps Comparison. Date. Change. Reason. 04/10/2016. First release of the site. 06/10/2016. "Does the company provide a transparency report" for Signal changed from "No" to "Yes". Open Whisper Systems have effectively published a transparency report. SECURE MESSAGING APPS COMPARISON No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. SurveillanceState
SECURE MESSAGING APPS COMPARISON Bitcoin address: 1HF56sG21JHwR8Fdy6yiLhyEHCRuN5vNx6. Secure Messaging Apps Comparison "Government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem" THE ROAD TO DIGITAL SERFDOM Similar mass surveillance laws were introduced after 9/11 in the US (e.g., the Patriot Act) and the UK (e.g., the Data Retention and Investigatory Powers Act 2014). The natural cadence for more mass surveillance even finds its way into legislation, with councils using such legislation to obtain metadata. This is the road to digitalserfdom
PERMANENT RECORD
Permanent Record. Author: Edward Snowden. Publisher: Macmillan. Published: 18/09/19. Edward Snowden, the man who risked everything to expose the US government’s system of mass surveillance, reveals for the first time the story of his life, including how he helped to build that system and what motivated him to try to bring it down. In 2013 THE NEW TECHNOLOGIES OF FREEDOM The New Technologies of Freedom. We are on the cusp of a dramatic wave of technological change - from blockchain to automated smart contracts, artificial intelligence and machine learning to advances in cryptography and digitisation, from Internet of Things to advanced communications technologies. These are the new technologies offreedom.
ENDING MASS SURVEILLANCE National security concerns will always win. More government is simply not the answer to ending mass surveillance. As I wrote above, mass surveillance is about governments’ access to citizens’ private data. Mass surveillance is an abuse of politicians’ and bureaucrats’ power against citizens. What is required is to restrictgovernments
THE ROAD TO SERFDOM
An unimpeachable classic work in political philosophy, intellectual and cultural history, and economics, The Road to Serfdom has inspired and infuriated politicians, scholars, and general readers for CRYPTO: HOW THE CODE REBELS BEAT THE GOVERNMENT–SAVING If you've ever made a secure purchase with your credit card over the Internet, then you have seen cryptography, or "crypto", in action. From Stephen Levy—the author who made "hackers" a household word—comes this account of a revolution that is already affecting every citizen in the twenty-first century. SECURE MESSAGING APPS COMPARISON This site compares secure messaging apps from a security & privacy point of view. These include Facebook Messenger, iMessage, Skype, Signal, Google Allo, Threema, Riot, Wire, Telegram, and Wickr. The best secure messaging app? SECURE MESSAGING APPS COMPARISON Apple iMessage. Apple were implicated as an NSA partner in the Snowden leaks. Apple’s general record in digital privacy is poor/mixed. For example, Apple have been paid by Google to set iOS’ default web browser to Google. iCloud is not encrypted. Encryption uses weak cryptographic primitives, and perfect forward secrecy is notimplemented
SECURE MESSAGING APPS COMPARISON The objective of this site. I created this site to enable people to compare many so-called “secure messaging apps”. Likewise, I hope to educate people as to which functionality is required for truly secure messaging. In 2016, I was frustrated with the EFF’s very out-of-date comparison, and hence I decided to create a comparisonmyself.
SECURE MESSAGING APPS COMPARISON April 5, 2021. April 4, 2021 by Mark. We rarely pause to reflect upon how encryption entered the public domain. Prior to the late ’70s, encryption was a domain for the military, with very little utility for the average person. Computers were expensive hobbies for cashed-up geeks, ARPANET was the Internet, and mobile phones weren’t even adream.
SECURE MESSAGING APPS COMPARISON Secure Messaging Apps Comparison. Please read the Ratings and About/FAQ pages before contacting me. At least 1/3 of emails that I receive ask questions that I have answered in either page. I often receive far too many emails to which I can respond, especially when secure messaging apps are in the media. I do read them all, though.Name *. First.
SECURE MESSAGING APPS COMPARISON Secure Messaging Apps Comparison. Date. Change. Reason. 04/10/2016. First release of the site. 06/10/2016. "Does the company provide a transparency report" for Signal changed from "No" to "Yes". Open Whisper Systems have effectively published a transparency report. SECURE MESSAGING APPS COMPARISON 1. An adversary could trick users into downloading the app from a malicious app store. Category: Spoofing. Description: Justification: . WHY FREE SPEECH IS IMPORTANT FOR DIGITAL PRIVACY We rarely pause to reflect upon how encryption entered the public domain. Prior to the late ’70s, encryption was a domain for the military, with very little utility for the average person. Computers were expensive hobbies for cashed-up geeks, ARPANET was the Internet, and mobile phones weren’t even a dream. What I have written below A RESPONSE TO THE ESAFETY COMMISSION’S END-TO-END With Australia’s eSafety Commission — a federal government statutory body — in the news lately, I though I’d tackle a topic that’s been bothering me for many months. In February, 2020, the eSafety Commission released a position statement on end-to-end encryption. As I wrote earlier, the position statement could be renamed to, “Reasons Why the THE ROAD TO DIGITAL SERFDOM: AUSTRALIA’S GOVERNMENT “With government legislation, it’s rare that legislation is repealed (e.g., “hate speech” laws), rare that nonsensical or failed government programmes are closed down, and rare that governments decrease in size, power, and influence. For digital privacy, this natural cadence of ever increasing government power can only mean more legislation against citizens’ digital privacy and SECURE MESSAGING APPS COMPARISON This site compares secure messaging apps from a security & privacy point of view. These include Facebook Messenger, iMessage, Skype, Signal, Google Allo, Threema, Riot, Wire, Telegram, and Wickr. The best secure messaging app? SECURE MESSAGING APPS COMPARISON Apple iMessage. Apple were implicated as an NSA partner in the Snowden leaks. Apple’s general record in digital privacy is poor/mixed. For example, Apple have been paid by Google to set iOS’ default web browser to Google. iCloud is not encrypted. Encryption uses weak cryptographic primitives, and perfect forward secrecy is notimplemented
SECURE MESSAGING APPS COMPARISON The objective of this site. I created this site to enable people to compare many so-called “secure messaging apps”. Likewise, I hope to educate people as to which functionality is required for truly secure messaging. In 2016, I was frustrated with the EFF’s very out-of-date comparison, and hence I decided to create a comparisonmyself.
SECURE MESSAGING APPS COMPARISON April 5, 2021. April 4, 2021 by Mark. We rarely pause to reflect upon how encryption entered the public domain. Prior to the late ’70s, encryption was a domain for the military, with very little utility for the average person. Computers were expensive hobbies for cashed-up geeks, ARPANET was the Internet, and mobile phones weren’t even adream.
SECURE MESSAGING APPS COMPARISON Secure Messaging Apps Comparison. Please read the Ratings and About/FAQ pages before contacting me. At least 1/3 of emails that I receive ask questions that I have answered in either page. I often receive far too many emails to which I can respond, especially when secure messaging apps are in the media. I do read them all, though.Name *. First.
SECURE MESSAGING APPS COMPARISON Secure Messaging Apps Comparison. Date. Change. Reason. 04/10/2016. First release of the site. 06/10/2016. "Does the company provide a transparency report" for Signal changed from "No" to "Yes". Open Whisper Systems have effectively published a transparency report. SECURE MESSAGING APPS COMPARISON 1. An adversary could trick users into downloading the app from a malicious app store. Category: Spoofing. Description: Justification: . WHY FREE SPEECH IS IMPORTANT FOR DIGITAL PRIVACY We rarely pause to reflect upon how encryption entered the public domain. Prior to the late ’70s, encryption was a domain for the military, with very little utility for the average person. Computers were expensive hobbies for cashed-up geeks, ARPANET was the Internet, and mobile phones weren’t even a dream. What I have written below A RESPONSE TO THE ESAFETY COMMISSION’S END-TO-END With Australia’s eSafety Commission — a federal government statutory body — in the news lately, I though I’d tackle a topic that’s been bothering me for many months. In February, 2020, the eSafety Commission released a position statement on end-to-end encryption. As I wrote earlier, the position statement could be renamed to, “Reasons Why the THE ROAD TO DIGITAL SERFDOM: AUSTRALIA’S GOVERNMENT “With government legislation, it’s rare that legislation is repealed (e.g., “hate speech” laws), rare that nonsensical or failed government programmes are closed down, and rare that governments decrease in size, power, and influence. For digital privacy, this natural cadence of ever increasing government power can only mean more legislation against citizens’ digital privacy and SECURE MESSAGING APPS COMPARISON April 5, 2021. April 4, 2021 by Mark. We rarely pause to reflect upon how encryption entered the public domain. Prior to the late ’70s, encryption was a domain for the military, with very little utility for the average person. Computers were expensive hobbies for cashed-up geeks, ARPANET was the Internet, and mobile phones weren’t even adream.
SECURE MESSAGING APPS COMPARISON Secure Messaging Apps Comparison. Date. Change. Reason. 04/10/2016. First release of the site. 06/10/2016. "Does the company provide a transparency report" for Signal changed from "No" to "Yes". Open Whisper Systems have effectively published a transparency report. SECURE MESSAGING APPS COMPARISON No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. SurveillanceState
SECURE MESSAGING APPS COMPARISON Bitcoin address: 1HF56sG21JHwR8Fdy6yiLhyEHCRuN5vNx6. Secure Messaging Apps Comparison "Government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem" THE ROAD TO DIGITAL SERFDOM Similar mass surveillance laws were introduced after 9/11 in the US (e.g., the Patriot Act) and the UK (e.g., the Data Retention and Investigatory Powers Act 2014). The natural cadence for more mass surveillance even finds its way into legislation, with councils using such legislation to obtain metadata. This is the road to digitalserfdom
PERMANENT RECORD
Permanent Record. Author: Edward Snowden. Publisher: Macmillan. Published: 18/09/19. Edward Snowden, the man who risked everything to expose the US government’s system of mass surveillance, reveals for the first time the story of his life, including how he helped to build that system and what motivated him to try to bring it down. In 2013 THE NEW TECHNOLOGIES OF FREEDOM The New Technologies of Freedom. We are on the cusp of a dramatic wave of technological change - from blockchain to automated smart contracts, artificial intelligence and machine learning to advances in cryptography and digitisation, from Internet of Things to advanced communications technologies. These are the new technologies offreedom.
ENDING MASS SURVEILLANCE National security concerns will always win. More government is simply not the answer to ending mass surveillance. As I wrote above, mass surveillance is about governments’ access to citizens’ private data. Mass surveillance is an abuse of politicians’ and bureaucrats’ power against citizens. What is required is to restrictgovernments
THE ROAD TO SERFDOM
An unimpeachable classic work in political philosophy, intellectual and cultural history, and economics, The Road to Serfdom has inspired and infuriated politicians, scholars, and general readers for CRYPTO: HOW THE CODE REBELS BEAT THE GOVERNMENT–SAVING If you've ever made a secure purchase with your credit card over the Internet, then you have seen cryptography, or "crypto", in action. From Stephen Levy—the author who made "hackers" a household word—comes this account of a revolution that is already affecting every citizen in the twenty-first century. SECURE MESSAGING APPS COMPARISON This site compares secure messaging apps from a security & privacy point of view. These include Facebook Messenger, iMessage, Skype, Signal, Google Allo, Threema, Riot, Wire, Telegram, and Wickr. The best secure messaging app? SECURE MESSAGING APPS COMPARISON Apple iMessage. Apple were implicated as an NSA partner in the Snowden leaks. Apple’s general record in digital privacy is poor/mixed. For example, Apple have been paid by Google to set iOS’ default web browser to Google. iCloud is not encrypted. Encryption uses weak cryptographic primitives, and perfect forward secrecy is notimplemented
SECURE MESSAGING APPS COMPARISON The objective of this site. I created this site to enable people to compare many so-called “secure messaging apps”. Likewise, I hope to educate people as to which functionality is required for truly secure messaging. In 2016, I was frustrated with the EFF’s very out-of-date comparison, and hence I decided to create a comparisonmyself.
SECURE MESSAGING APPS COMPARISON April 5, 2021. April 4, 2021 by Mark. We rarely pause to reflect upon how encryption entered the public domain. Prior to the late ’70s, encryption was a domain for the military, with very little utility for the average person. Computers were expensive hobbies for cashed-up geeks, ARPANET was the Internet, and mobile phones weren’t even adream.
SECURE MESSAGING APPS COMPARISON Secure Messaging Apps Comparison. Please read the Ratings and About/FAQ pages before contacting me. At least 1/3 of emails that I receive ask questions that I have answered in either page. I often receive far too many emails to which I can respond, especially when secure messaging apps are in the media. I do read them all, though.Name *. First.
SECURE MESSAGING APPS COMPARISON Secure Messaging Apps Comparison. Date. Change. Reason. 04/10/2016. First release of the site. 06/10/2016. "Does the company provide a transparency report" for Signal changed from "No" to "Yes". Open Whisper Systems have effectively published a transparency report. SECURE MESSAGING APPS COMPARISON 1. An adversary could trick users into downloading the app from a malicious app store. Category: Spoofing. Description: Justification: . WHY FREE SPEECH IS IMPORTANT FOR DIGITAL PRIVACY We rarely pause to reflect upon how encryption entered the public domain. Prior to the late ’70s, encryption was a domain for the military, with very little utility for the average person. Computers were expensive hobbies for cashed-up geeks, ARPANET was the Internet, and mobile phones weren’t even a dream. What I have written below A RESPONSE TO THE ESAFETY COMMISSION’S END-TO-END With Australia’s eSafety Commission — a federal government statutory body — in the news lately, I though I’d tackle a topic that’s been bothering me for many months. In February, 2020, the eSafety Commission released a position statement on end-to-end encryption. As I wrote earlier, the position statement could be renamed to, “Reasons Why the THE ROAD TO DIGITAL SERFDOM: AUSTRALIA’S GOVERNMENT “With government legislation, it’s rare that legislation is repealed (e.g., “hate speech” laws), rare that nonsensical or failed government programmes are closed down, and rare that governments decrease in size, power, and influence. For digital privacy, this natural cadence of ever increasing government power can only mean more legislation against citizens’ digital privacy and SECURE MESSAGING APPS COMPARISON This site compares secure messaging apps from a security & privacy point of view. These include Facebook Messenger, iMessage, Skype, Signal, Google Allo, Threema, Riot, Wire, Telegram, and Wickr. The best secure messaging app? SECURE MESSAGING APPS COMPARISON Apple iMessage. Apple were implicated as an NSA partner in the Snowden leaks. Apple’s general record in digital privacy is poor/mixed. For example, Apple have been paid by Google to set iOS’ default web browser to Google. iCloud is not encrypted. Encryption uses weak cryptographic primitives, and perfect forward secrecy is notimplemented
SECURE MESSAGING APPS COMPARISON The objective of this site. I created this site to enable people to compare many so-called “secure messaging apps”. Likewise, I hope to educate people as to which functionality is required for truly secure messaging. In 2016, I was frustrated with the EFF’s very out-of-date comparison, and hence I decided to create a comparisonmyself.
SECURE MESSAGING APPS COMPARISON April 5, 2021. April 4, 2021 by Mark. We rarely pause to reflect upon how encryption entered the public domain. Prior to the late ’70s, encryption was a domain for the military, with very little utility for the average person. Computers were expensive hobbies for cashed-up geeks, ARPANET was the Internet, and mobile phones weren’t even adream.
SECURE MESSAGING APPS COMPARISON Secure Messaging Apps Comparison. Please read the Ratings and About/FAQ pages before contacting me. At least 1/3 of emails that I receive ask questions that I have answered in either page. I often receive far too many emails to which I can respond, especially when secure messaging apps are in the media. I do read them all, though.Name *. First.
SECURE MESSAGING APPS COMPARISON Secure Messaging Apps Comparison. Date. Change. Reason. 04/10/2016. First release of the site. 06/10/2016. "Does the company provide a transparency report" for Signal changed from "No" to "Yes". Open Whisper Systems have effectively published a transparency report. SECURE MESSAGING APPS COMPARISON 1. An adversary could trick users into downloading the app from a malicious app store. Category: Spoofing. Description: Justification: . WHY FREE SPEECH IS IMPORTANT FOR DIGITAL PRIVACY We rarely pause to reflect upon how encryption entered the public domain. Prior to the late ’70s, encryption was a domain for the military, with very little utility for the average person. Computers were expensive hobbies for cashed-up geeks, ARPANET was the Internet, and mobile phones weren’t even a dream. What I have written below A RESPONSE TO THE ESAFETY COMMISSION’S END-TO-END With Australia’s eSafety Commission — a federal government statutory body — in the news lately, I though I’d tackle a topic that’s been bothering me for many months. In February, 2020, the eSafety Commission released a position statement on end-to-end encryption. As I wrote earlier, the position statement could be renamed to, “Reasons Why the THE ROAD TO DIGITAL SERFDOM: AUSTRALIA’S GOVERNMENT “With government legislation, it’s rare that legislation is repealed (e.g., “hate speech” laws), rare that nonsensical or failed government programmes are closed down, and rare that governments decrease in size, power, and influence. For digital privacy, this natural cadence of ever increasing government power can only mean more legislation against citizens’ digital privacy and SECURE MESSAGING APPS COMPARISON April 5, 2021. April 4, 2021 by Mark. We rarely pause to reflect upon how encryption entered the public domain. Prior to the late ’70s, encryption was a domain for the military, with very little utility for the average person. Computers were expensive hobbies for cashed-up geeks, ARPANET was the Internet, and mobile phones weren’t even adream.
SECURE MESSAGING APPS COMPARISON Secure Messaging Apps Comparison. Date. Change. Reason. 04/10/2016. First release of the site. 06/10/2016. "Does the company provide a transparency report" for Signal changed from "No" to "Yes". Open Whisper Systems have effectively published a transparency report. SECURE MESSAGING APPS COMPARISON No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. SurveillanceState
SECURE MESSAGING APPS COMPARISON Bitcoin address: 1HF56sG21JHwR8Fdy6yiLhyEHCRuN5vNx6. Secure Messaging Apps Comparison "Government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem" THE ROAD TO DIGITAL SERFDOM Similar mass surveillance laws were introduced after 9/11 in the US (e.g., the Patriot Act) and the UK (e.g., the Data Retention and Investigatory Powers Act 2014). The natural cadence for more mass surveillance even finds its way into legislation, with councils using such legislation to obtain metadata. This is the road to digitalserfdom
PERMANENT RECORD
Permanent Record. Author: Edward Snowden. Publisher: Macmillan. Published: 18/09/19. Edward Snowden, the man who risked everything to expose the US government’s system of mass surveillance, reveals for the first time the story of his life, including how he helped to build that system and what motivated him to try to bring it down. In 2013 THE NEW TECHNOLOGIES OF FREEDOM The New Technologies of Freedom. We are on the cusp of a dramatic wave of technological change - from blockchain to automated smart contracts, artificial intelligence and machine learning to advances in cryptography and digitisation, from Internet of Things to advanced communications technologies. These are the new technologies offreedom.
ENDING MASS SURVEILLANCE National security concerns will always win. More government is simply not the answer to ending mass surveillance. As I wrote above, mass surveillance is about governments’ access to citizens’ private data. Mass surveillance is an abuse of politicians’ and bureaucrats’ power against citizens. What is required is to restrictgovernments
THE ROAD TO SERFDOM
An unimpeachable classic work in political philosophy, intellectual and cultural history, and economics, The Road to Serfdom has inspired and infuriated politicians, scholars, and general readers for CRYPTO: HOW THE CODE REBELS BEAT THE GOVERNMENT–SAVING If you've ever made a secure purchase with your credit card over the Internet, then you have seen cryptography, or "crypto", in action. From Stephen Levy—the author who made "hackers" a household word—comes this account of a revolution that is already affecting every citizen in the twenty-first century. SECURE MESSAGING APPS COMPARISON This site compares secure messaging apps from a security & privacy point of view. These include Facebook Messenger, iMessage, Skype, Signal, Google Allo, Threema, Riot, Wire, Telegram, and Wickr. The best secure messaging app? SECURE MESSAGING APPS COMPARISON The objective of this site. I created this site to enable people to compare many so-called “secure messaging apps”. Likewise, I hope to educate people as to which functionality is required for truly secure messaging. In 2016, I was frustrated with the EFF’s very out-of-date comparison, and hence I decided to create a comparisonmyself.
SECURE MESSAGING APPS COMPARISON Apple iMessage. Apple were implicated as an NSA partner in the Snowden leaks. Apple’s general record in digital privacy is poor/mixed. For example, Apple have been paid by Google to set iOS’ default web browser to Google. iCloud is not encrypted. Encryption uses weak cryptographic primitives, and perfect forward secrecy is notimplemented
SECURE MESSAGING APPS COMPARISON April 5, 2021. April 4, 2021 by Mark. We rarely pause to reflect upon how encryption entered the public domain. Prior to the late ’70s, encryption was a domain for the military, with very little utility for the average person. Computers were expensive hobbies for cashed-up geeks, ARPANET was the Internet, and mobile phones weren’t even adream.
SECURE MESSAGING APPS COMPARISON Secure Messaging Apps Comparison. Please read the Ratings and About/FAQ pages before contacting me. At least 1/3 of emails that I receive ask questions that I have answered in either page. I often receive far too many emails to which I can respond, especially when secure messaging apps are in the media. I do read them all, though.Name *. First.
SECURE MESSAGING APPS COMPARISON Secure Messaging Apps Comparison. Date. Change. Reason. 04/10/2016. First release of the site. 06/10/2016. "Does the company provide a transparency report" for Signal changed from "No" to "Yes". Open Whisper Systems have effectively published a transparency report. SECURE MESSAGING APPS COMPARISON 1. An adversary could trick users into downloading the app from a malicious app store. Category: Spoofing. Description: Justification: . SECURE MESSAGING APPS COMPARISON Secure Messaging Apps Comparison. Governments around the world are seeking to be able to bypass encryption, and, in general, obtain as much data as possible on citizens' technology usage. Not often considered as a threat actor, although you might want to hide information from a close friend or family. A RESPONSE TO THE ESAFETY COMMISSION’S END-TO-END With Australia’s eSafety Commission — a federal government statutory body — in the news lately, I though I’d tackle a topic that’s been bothering me for many months. In February, 2020, the eSafety Commission released a position statement on end-to-end encryption. As I wrote earlier, the position statement could be renamed to, “Reasons Why the THE ROAD TO DIGITAL SERFDOM: AUSTRALIA’S GOVERNMENT “With government legislation, it’s rare that legislation is repealed (e.g., “hate speech” laws), rare that nonsensical or failed government programmes are closed down, and rare that governments decrease in size, power, and influence. For digital privacy, this natural cadence of ever increasing government power can only mean more legislation against citizens’ digital privacy and SECURE MESSAGING APPS COMPARISON This site compares secure messaging apps from a security & privacy point of view. These include Facebook Messenger, iMessage, Skype, Signal, Google Allo, Threema, Riot, Wire, Telegram, and Wickr. The best secure messaging app? SECURE MESSAGING APPS COMPARISON The objective of this site. I created this site to enable people to compare many so-called “secure messaging apps”. Likewise, I hope to educate people as to which functionality is required for truly secure messaging. In 2016, I was frustrated with the EFF’s very out-of-date comparison, and hence I decided to create a comparisonmyself.
SECURE MESSAGING APPS COMPARISON Apple iMessage. Apple were implicated as an NSA partner in the Snowden leaks. Apple’s general record in digital privacy is poor/mixed. For example, Apple have been paid by Google to set iOS’ default web browser to Google. iCloud is not encrypted. Encryption uses weak cryptographic primitives, and perfect forward secrecy is notimplemented
SECURE MESSAGING APPS COMPARISON April 5, 2021. April 4, 2021 by Mark. We rarely pause to reflect upon how encryption entered the public domain. Prior to the late ’70s, encryption was a domain for the military, with very little utility for the average person. Computers were expensive hobbies for cashed-up geeks, ARPANET was the Internet, and mobile phones weren’t even adream.
SECURE MESSAGING APPS COMPARISON Secure Messaging Apps Comparison. Please read the Ratings and About/FAQ pages before contacting me. At least 1/3 of emails that I receive ask questions that I have answered in either page. I often receive far too many emails to which I can respond, especially when secure messaging apps are in the media. I do read them all, though.Name *. First.
SECURE MESSAGING APPS COMPARISON Secure Messaging Apps Comparison. Date. Change. Reason. 04/10/2016. First release of the site. 06/10/2016. "Does the company provide a transparency report" for Signal changed from "No" to "Yes". Open Whisper Systems have effectively published a transparency report. SECURE MESSAGING APPS COMPARISON 1. An adversary could trick users into downloading the app from a malicious app store. Category: Spoofing. Description: Justification: . SECURE MESSAGING APPS COMPARISON Secure Messaging Apps Comparison. Governments around the world are seeking to be able to bypass encryption, and, in general, obtain as much data as possible on citizens' technology usage. Not often considered as a threat actor, although you might want to hide information from a close friend or family. A RESPONSE TO THE ESAFETY COMMISSION’S END-TO-END With Australia’s eSafety Commission — a federal government statutory body — in the news lately, I though I’d tackle a topic that’s been bothering me for many months. In February, 2020, the eSafety Commission released a position statement on end-to-end encryption. As I wrote earlier, the position statement could be renamed to, “Reasons Why the THE ROAD TO DIGITAL SERFDOM: AUSTRALIA’S GOVERNMENT “With government legislation, it’s rare that legislation is repealed (e.g., “hate speech” laws), rare that nonsensical or failed government programmes are closed down, and rare that governments decrease in size, power, and influence. For digital privacy, this natural cadence of ever increasing government power can only mean more legislation against citizens’ digital privacy and SECURE MESSAGING APPS COMPARISON No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. SurveillanceState
CENSORSHIP & MISINFORMATION: A RISK TO SECURE MESSAGING? Censorship & Misinformation: A Risk to Secure Messaging? January 12, 2021 by Mark. During the last week, Apple, Google, and AWS took steps to ensure that Parler was made inaccessible. Likewise, YouTube temporarily removed TalkRADIO’s channel because the UK radio station questioned “expert” advice on COVID-19. SECURE MESSAGING APPS COMPARISON Bitcoin address: 1HF56sG21JHwR8Fdy6yiLhyEHCRuN5vNx6. Secure Messaging Apps Comparison "Government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem"PERMANENT RECORD
Permanent Record. Author: Edward Snowden. Publisher: Macmillan. Published: 18/09/19. Edward Snowden, the man who risked everything to expose the US government’s system of mass surveillance, reveals for the first time the story of his life, including how he helped to build that system and what motivated him to try to bring it down. In 2013 WHY FREE SPEECH IS IMPORTANT FOR DIGITAL PRIVACY We rarely pause to reflect upon how encryption entered the public domain. Prior to the late ’70s, encryption was a domain for the military, with very little utility for the average person. Computers were expensive hobbies for cashed-up geeks, ARPANET was the Internet, and mobile phones weren’t even a dream. What I have written below THE ROAD TO DIGITAL SERFDOM Similar mass surveillance laws were introduced after 9/11 in the US (e.g., the Patriot Act) and the UK (e.g., the Data Retention and Investigatory Powers Act 2014). The natural cadence for more mass surveillance even finds its way into legislation, with councils using such legislation to obtain metadata. This is the road to digitalserfdom
THE NEW TECHNOLOGIES OF FREEDOM The New Technologies of Freedom. We are on the cusp of a dramatic wave of technological change - from blockchain to automated smart contracts, artificial intelligence and machine learning to advances in cryptography and digitisation, from Internet of Things to advanced communications technologies. These are the new technologies offreedom.
ENDING MASS SURVEILLANCE National security concerns will always win. More government is simply not the answer to ending mass surveillance. As I wrote above, mass surveillance is about governments’ access to citizens’ private data. Mass surveillance is an abuse of politicians’ and bureaucrats’ power against citizens. What is required is to restrictgovernments
THE ROAD TO SERFDOM
The Road to Serfdom. An unimpeachable classic work in political philosophy, intellectual and cultural history, and economics, The Road to Serfdom has inspired and infuriated politicians, scholars, and general readers for half a century. Originally published in 1944—when Eleanor Roosevelt supported the efforts of Stalin, andAlbert Einstein
MASS SURVEILLANCE BY ANOTHER NAME: CASH BAN BILL SCRAPPED A proposed Bill to ban cash payments of over $10,000 died in Australia’s Senate. However, anyone paying attention to the federal government’s record on safety over freedom should stay tuned the Bill will eventually return in some form. SECURE MESSAGING APPS COMPARISON This site compares secure messaging apps from a security & privacy point of view. These include Facebook Messenger, iMessage, Skype, Signal, Google Allo, Threema, Riot, Wire, Telegram, and Wickr. The best secure messaging app? SECURE MESSAGING APPS COMPARISON The objective of this site. I created this site to enable people to compare many so-called “secure messaging apps”. Likewise, I hope to educate people as to which functionality is required for truly secure messaging. In 2016, I was frustrated with the EFF’s very out-of-date comparison, and hence I decided to create a comparisonmyself.
SECURE MESSAGING APPS COMPARISON Apple iMessage. Apple were implicated as an NSA partner in the Snowden leaks. Apple’s general record in digital privacy is poor/mixed. For example, Apple have been paid by Google to set iOS’ default web browser to Google. iCloud is not encrypted. Encryption uses weak cryptographic primitives, and perfect forward secrecy is notimplemented
SECURE MESSAGING APPS COMPARISON April 5, 2021. April 4, 2021 by Mark. We rarely pause to reflect upon how encryption entered the public domain. Prior to the late ’70s, encryption was a domain for the military, with very little utility for the average person. Computers were expensive hobbies for cashed-up geeks, ARPANET was the Internet, and mobile phones weren’t even adream.
SECURE MESSAGING APPS COMPARISON Secure Messaging Apps Comparison. Please read the Ratings and About/FAQ pages before contacting me. At least 1/3 of emails that I receive ask questions that I have answered in either page. I often receive far too many emails to which I can respond, especially when secure messaging apps are in the media. I do read them all, though.Name *. First.
SECURE MESSAGING APPS COMPARISON Secure Messaging Apps Comparison. Date. Change. Reason. 04/10/2016. First release of the site. 06/10/2016. "Does the company provide a transparency report" for Signal changed from "No" to "Yes". Open Whisper Systems have effectively published a transparency report. SECURE MESSAGING APPS COMPARISON 1. An adversary could trick users into downloading the app from a malicious app store. Category: Spoofing. Description: Justification: . SECURE MESSAGING APPS COMPARISON Secure Messaging Apps Comparison. Governments around the world are seeking to be able to bypass encryption, and, in general, obtain as much data as possible on citizens' technology usage. Not often considered as a threat actor, although you might want to hide information from a close friend or family. A RESPONSE TO THE ESAFETY COMMISSION’S END-TO-END With Australia’s eSafety Commission — a federal government statutory body — in the news lately, I though I’d tackle a topic that’s been bothering me for many months. In February, 2020, the eSafety Commission released a position statement on end-to-end encryption. As I wrote earlier, the position statement could be renamed to, “Reasons Why the THE ROAD TO DIGITAL SERFDOM: AUSTRALIA’S GOVERNMENT “With government legislation, it’s rare that legislation is repealed (e.g., “hate speech” laws), rare that nonsensical or failed government programmes are closed down, and rare that governments decrease in size, power, and influence. For digital privacy, this natural cadence of ever increasing government power can only mean more legislation against citizens’ digital privacy and SECURE MESSAGING APPS COMPARISON This site compares secure messaging apps from a security & privacy point of view. These include Facebook Messenger, iMessage, Skype, Signal, Google Allo, Threema, Riot, Wire, Telegram, and Wickr. The best secure messaging app? SECURE MESSAGING APPS COMPARISON The objective of this site. I created this site to enable people to compare many so-called “secure messaging apps”. Likewise, I hope to educate people as to which functionality is required for truly secure messaging. In 2016, I was frustrated with the EFF’s very out-of-date comparison, and hence I decided to create a comparisonmyself.
SECURE MESSAGING APPS COMPARISON Apple iMessage. Apple were implicated as an NSA partner in the Snowden leaks. Apple’s general record in digital privacy is poor/mixed. For example, Apple have been paid by Google to set iOS’ default web browser to Google. iCloud is not encrypted. Encryption uses weak cryptographic primitives, and perfect forward secrecy is notimplemented
SECURE MESSAGING APPS COMPARISON April 5, 2021. April 4, 2021 by Mark. We rarely pause to reflect upon how encryption entered the public domain. Prior to the late ’70s, encryption was a domain for the military, with very little utility for the average person. Computers were expensive hobbies for cashed-up geeks, ARPANET was the Internet, and mobile phones weren’t even adream.
SECURE MESSAGING APPS COMPARISON Secure Messaging Apps Comparison. Please read the Ratings and About/FAQ pages before contacting me. At least 1/3 of emails that I receive ask questions that I have answered in either page. I often receive far too many emails to which I can respond, especially when secure messaging apps are in the media. I do read them all, though.Name *. First.
SECURE MESSAGING APPS COMPARISON Secure Messaging Apps Comparison. Date. Change. Reason. 04/10/2016. First release of the site. 06/10/2016. "Does the company provide a transparency report" for Signal changed from "No" to "Yes". Open Whisper Systems have effectively published a transparency report. SECURE MESSAGING APPS COMPARISON 1. An adversary could trick users into downloading the app from a malicious app store. Category: Spoofing. Description: Justification: . SECURE MESSAGING APPS COMPARISON Secure Messaging Apps Comparison. Governments around the world are seeking to be able to bypass encryption, and, in general, obtain as much data as possible on citizens' technology usage. Not often considered as a threat actor, although you might want to hide information from a close friend or family. A RESPONSE TO THE ESAFETY COMMISSION’S END-TO-END With Australia’s eSafety Commission — a federal government statutory body — in the news lately, I though I’d tackle a topic that’s been bothering me for many months. In February, 2020, the eSafety Commission released a position statement on end-to-end encryption. As I wrote earlier, the position statement could be renamed to, “Reasons Why the THE ROAD TO DIGITAL SERFDOM: AUSTRALIA’S GOVERNMENT “With government legislation, it’s rare that legislation is repealed (e.g., “hate speech” laws), rare that nonsensical or failed government programmes are closed down, and rare that governments decrease in size, power, and influence. For digital privacy, this natural cadence of ever increasing government power can only mean more legislation against citizens’ digital privacy and SECURE MESSAGING APPS COMPARISON No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. SurveillanceState
CENSORSHIP & MISINFORMATION: A RISK TO SECURE MESSAGING? Censorship & Misinformation: A Risk to Secure Messaging? January 12, 2021 by Mark. During the last week, Apple, Google, and AWS took steps to ensure that Parler was made inaccessible. Likewise, YouTube temporarily removed TalkRADIO’s channel because the UK radio station questioned “expert” advice on COVID-19. SECURE MESSAGING APPS COMPARISON Bitcoin address: 1HF56sG21JHwR8Fdy6yiLhyEHCRuN5vNx6. Secure Messaging Apps Comparison "Government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem"PERMANENT RECORD
Permanent Record. Author: Edward Snowden. Publisher: Macmillan. Published: 18/09/19. Edward Snowden, the man who risked everything to expose the US government’s system of mass surveillance, reveals for the first time the story of his life, including how he helped to build that system and what motivated him to try to bring it down. In 2013 WHY FREE SPEECH IS IMPORTANT FOR DIGITAL PRIVACY We rarely pause to reflect upon how encryption entered the public domain. Prior to the late ’70s, encryption was a domain for the military, with very little utility for the average person. Computers were expensive hobbies for cashed-up geeks, ARPANET was the Internet, and mobile phones weren’t even a dream. What I have written below THE ROAD TO DIGITAL SERFDOM Similar mass surveillance laws were introduced after 9/11 in the US (e.g., the Patriot Act) and the UK (e.g., the Data Retention and Investigatory Powers Act 2014). The natural cadence for more mass surveillance even finds its way into legislation, with councils using such legislation to obtain metadata. This is the road to digitalserfdom
THE NEW TECHNOLOGIES OF FREEDOM The New Technologies of Freedom. We are on the cusp of a dramatic wave of technological change - from blockchain to automated smart contracts, artificial intelligence and machine learning to advances in cryptography and digitisation, from Internet of Things to advanced communications technologies. These are the new technologies offreedom.
ENDING MASS SURVEILLANCE National security concerns will always win. More government is simply not the answer to ending mass surveillance. As I wrote above, mass surveillance is about governments’ access to citizens’ private data. Mass surveillance is an abuse of politicians’ and bureaucrats’ power against citizens. What is required is to restrictgovernments
THE ROAD TO SERFDOM
The Road to Serfdom. An unimpeachable classic work in political philosophy, intellectual and cultural history, and economics, The Road to Serfdom has inspired and infuriated politicians, scholars, and general readers for half a century. Originally published in 1944—when Eleanor Roosevelt supported the efforts of Stalin, andAlbert Einstein
MASS SURVEILLANCE BY ANOTHER NAME: CASH BAN BILL SCRAPPED A proposed Bill to ban cash payments of over $10,000 died in Australia’s Senate. However, anyone paying attention to the federal government’s record on safety over freedom should stay tuned the Bill will eventually return in some form.Skip to content
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GOOGLE MESSAGES
APPLE IMESSAGE
FACEBOOK MESSENGER
ELEMENT / RIOT
SIGNAL
MICROSOFT SKYPE
TELEGRAM
THREEMA
VIBER
FACEBOOK WHATSAPP
WICKR ME
WIRE
SESSION
Overview
IS THE APP RECOMMENDED TO SECURE MY MESSAGES AND ATTACHMENTS?No
No
No
No
Yes
No
No
Yes
No
No
No
Yes
No
Main reasons why the app isn't recommended Improvements to apps that are recommendedMore details
Named as NSA partner in Snowden revelations Makes money from personal data Data not protected, not all data protected No independent & recent code audit and security analysisClosed source
Named as NSA partner in Snowden revelations Data not protected, not all data protected No independent & recent code audit and security analysisClosed source
Named as NSA partner in Snowden revelations Encryption not enabled by default Makes money from personal data Data not protected, not all data protected No independent & recent code audit and security analysisClosed source
No independent & recent code audit and security analysis Remove the mandatory requirement for users to sign up with a mobilenumber
Provide more comprehensive independent assessments of security/privacy Named as NSA partner in Snowden revelations Encryption not enabled by default Makes money from personal data Data not protected, not all data protectedClosed source
Bespoke cryptography Encryption not enabled by default Data not protected, not all data protected Make APIs and server code open source Implement perfect forward secrecy at the end-to-end encryption layer Provide more comprehensive independent assessments of security/privacy Data not protected, not all data protected No independent & recent code audit and security analysisClosed source
Named as NSA partner in Snowden revelations Makes money from personal data Data not protected, not all data protected No independent & recent code audit and security analysisClosed source
Recent security audits are not publicClosed source
Further limit metadata storage and logging Provide more comprehensive independent assessments of security/privacy No independent & recent code audit and security analysisData not protected
Details
COMPANY JURISDICTIONUSA
USA
USA
UK
USA
USA
USA / UK / Belize / UAESwitzerland
Luxembourg / Japan
USA
USA
USA / Switzerland
Australia
INFRASTRUCTURE JURISDICTION Worldwide (rollout on-going, unsure of exact locations, most likely Google Cloud regions) USA (Ireland and Denmark planned); iMessage runs on AWS and GoogleCloud
USA, Sweden (Ireland planned) UK (and potentially all jurisdictions, given it's a decentralisedmessaging platform)
USA
USA, the Netherlands, Australia, Brazil, China, Ireland, Hong Kong,and Japan
UK, Singapore, USA, and FinlandSwitzerland
USA
USA (unsure of other locations) USA (unsure of other locations)EU
Messages: Worldwide (uses de-centralised servers) Attachments: Centralised server in the US IMPLICATED IN GIVING CUSTOMERS' DATA TO INTELLIGENCE AGENCIES?Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Yes
No
No
No
Yes
No
No
No
SURVEILLANCE CAPABILITY BUILT INTO THE APP?No
No
No
No
No
Yes
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
DOES THE COMPANY PROVIDE A TRANSPARENCY REPORT?Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
COMPANY'S GENERAL STANCE ON CUSTOMERS' PRIVACYPoor
Poor
Poor
Good
Good
Poor
Poor
Good
Poor
Poor
Good
Good
Good
FUNDING
Apple
New Vector Limited
Freedom of the Press Foundation / the Knight Foundation / the Shuttleworth Foundation / the Open Technology Fund / Signal Foundation(Brian Acton)
Microsoft
Pavel Durov
User pays / Afinum Management AG Rakuten / friends and family of Talmon Marco (it's very unclear)Ventures
Janus Friis / Iconical / Zeta Holdings Luxembourg /Morpheus Ventures
LAG Foundation Ltd
COMPANY COLLECTS CUSTOMERS' DATA?Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
No
No
No
APP COLLECTS CUSTOMERS' DATA?Yes
(Difficult to assess given the app is integrated into Google's greaterecosystem)
Yes
(Difficult to assess given the app is integrated into Apple's greaterecosystem)
Health & fitness / purchases / financial info / location / contact info / contacts / user content / search history / browsing history / identifiers / usage data / sensitive info / diagnostics / other data Contact info / contacts /identifiers /
diagnostics /
user content
(Contact info not sent when using anonymously)Contact Info
Yes
(Information not submitted to Apple Store)Contact info /
contacts /
identifiers
Contact info / identifiers / diagnostics (Contact info not sent when using anonymously) Location / identifiers / purchases / location / contact info / contacts / identifiers / usage data / user content / usage data /diagnostics
Purchases /
financial info /
location /
contact info /
contacts /
user content /
identifiers /
usage data /
diagnostics
Contact info /
usage data /
diagnostics
(Contact info not sent when using anonymously) Contact info / identifiers / usage data / diagnosticsNo
USER DATA AND/OR METADATA SENT TO PARENT COMPANY AND/OR THIRDPARTIES?
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
(User data is sent to a third party if a payment is made)Minimal
(mandatory mobile number sent to third party for registration &recovery)
Yes
Yes
No
(optional mobile number sent to third party for registration)Yes
Yes
No
(optional mobile number sent to third party for registration)Yes
No
IS ENCRYPTION TURNED ON BY DEFAULT?Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
No
No
Yes
Yes (if device supports it) Yes (if device supports it)Yes
Yes
Yes
CRYPTOGRAPHIC PRIMITIVES Curve25519 / AES-256 / HMAC-SHA256 RSA-1280 (encryption), ECDSA 256 (signing) / AES 128 / SHA-1 Curve25519 / AES-256 / HMAC-SHA256 Curve25519 / AES-256 / HMAC-SHA256 Curve25519 / AES-256 / HMAC-SHA256 RSA-1536 & 2048 / AES 256 / SHA-1 RSA 2048 / AES 256 / SHA-256 Curve25519 256 / XSalsa20 256 / Poly1305-AES 128 Curve25519 256 / Salsa20 128 / HMAC-SHA256 Curve25519 / AES-256 / HMAC-SHA256 ECDH512 / AES-256 / HMAC-SHA256 Curve25519 / ChaCha20 / HMAC-SHA256 X25519 / XSalsa20 256 / Poly1305 ARE THE APP AND SERVER COMPLETELY OPEN SOURCE?No
No
No
Yes (clients Element / Riot, server/API matrix.org)Yes
No
No (clients and API only)No (apps only)
No
No
No
Yes
Yes
ARE REPRODUCIBLE BUILDS USED TO VERIFY APPS AGAINST SOURCE CODE?No
No
No
No
Android only
No
iOS and Android
Android only
No
No
No
No
No
CAN YOU SIGN UP TO THE APP ANONYMOUSLY?No
No
No
Yes
No
No
No
Yes
No
No
Yes
No
Yes
CAN YOU ADD A CONTACT WITHOUT NEEDING TO TRUST A DIRECTORY SERVER? N/A, Google Messages uses RCS, which doesn't use a directory serviceNo
No
No
No
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
No
No
Yes
CAN YOU MANUALLY VERIFY CONTACTS' FINGERPRINTS?Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No (session only, does not provide users' fingerprint information)Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
DIRECTORY SERVICE COULD BE MODIFIED TO ENABLE A MITM ATTACK? N/A, Google Messages uses RCS, which doesn't use a directory serviceYes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
DO YOU GET NOTIFIED IF A CONTACT'S FINGERPRINT CHANGES?No
Yes
Yes
No
No (session only, does not provide users' fingerprint information)Yes
Yes
No (setting turned off by default)Yes
If contact was previously verifiedN/A
IS PERSONAL INFORMATION (MOBILE NUMBER, CONTACT LIST, ETC.) HASHED? N/A, Google Messages uses RCS, which doesn't use a directory serviceNo
No
Yes
Mostly
No
No
Yes
No
No
Yes
Mostly
N/A
DOES THE APP GENERATE & KEEP A PRIVATE KEY ON THE DEVICE ITSELF?Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
CAN MESSAGES BE READ BY THE COMPANY?No
No
Yes
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
No
No
No
No
No
DOES THE APP ENFORCE PERFECT FORWARD SECRECY?Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No (session keys do change after being used 100 times)No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
DOES THE APP ENCRYPT METADATA?No
No
No
Yes
No
Yes
No
Yes
Mostly
Yes
DOES THE APP USE TLS/NOISE TO ENCRYPT NETWORK TRAFFIC?Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
DOES THE APP USE CERTIFICATE PINNING?Yes (>=iOS 9.3)
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
DOES THE APP ENCRYPT DATA ON THE DEVICE? (IOS AND ANDROID ONLY)No
Yes (if passphrase enabled)Yes
Yes (if passphrase enabled) iOS: Yes (if passphrase enabled); Android: Yes (if master key set inthe app)
iOS: Yes (if passphrase enabled); Android: Yes (unsure of function)Yes
Yes
DOES THE APP ALLOW A SECONDARY FACTOR OF AUTHENTICATION?No
No
No
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes (password for account used)Yes
Yes
ARE MESSAGES ENCRYPTED WHEN BACKED UP TO THE CLOUD?Yes (>= Android P)
No
Yes
N/A, Signal is excluded from iCloud/iTunes & Android backupsYes
iOS: Yes
Android: No
N/A, Wickr is excluded from iCloud/iTunes & Android backups N/A, Wire is excluded from iCloud/iTunes & Android backupsNo
DOES THE COMPANY LOG TIMESTAMPS/IP ADDRESSES?Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
No
Some
No
HAVE THERE BEEN A RECENT CODE AUDIT AND AN INDEPENDENT SECURITYANALYSIS?
No
No
No
No
(Matrix's encryption library reviewed by an independent party)Yes (October, 2014)
No
Yes (November, 2015)Yes (October, 2020)
No
No
Yes (August, 2014)
Yes (March, 2018)
No
IS THE DESIGN WELL DOCUMENTED?No
Somewhat
Somewhat
Somewhat
Somewhat
No
Somewhat
Somewhat
Somewhat
Somewhat
Somewhat
Somewhat
Somewhat
DOES THE APP HAVE SELF-DESTRUCTING MESSAGES?No
No
Yes
No
Yes
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
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