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I like https://wire.com and https://threema.ch/en
Wire was in the middle of a shitstorm a while back iirc because it falsly advertised that it encrypted everything end-to-end, when in actual fact only text was so.
My mistake. Text isn't end-to-end, only calls are.
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That article recommends Tor for browsing without mentioning the dangers involved. Malicious exit nodes are not hypothetical. It's easy to make mistakes with Tor, so I'd be wary of a general recommendation to use it. People who know more about this than me seem to agree: https://twitter.com/thegrugq/status/797608924606173184 edit: I'm also unsure about the warning against fingerprint authentication. I use Touch ID wit…
The exact same dangers exist with normal browsing. Intermediate nodes on your route can do whatever they want unless you use proper encryption. In fact, things like sniffing your traffic are routinely done by $ThreeLetterAgency.
Note that Tor doesn't mitigate the three-letter agency problem, as they can just sniff the exit node's target (I certainly would, there's bound to be lots of interesting traffic there).
Check out the EFF's Secure Messaging Scorecard: https://www.eff.org/node/82654 Personally I use Signal and Whatsapp from that list.
Whatsapp as secure messaging? Sure.
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Wire was in the middle of a shitstorm a while back iirc because it falsly advertised that it encrypted everything end-to-end, when in actual fact only text was so.
Here's a source: http://www.pcworld.com/article/2855745/new-communications-ap... My mistake. Text isn't end-to-end, only calls are.
At the moment, Signal and Wire seem to be the best options. They have open-source clients, end-to-end encryption, are easy enough to use that even less-computer savy people can be realistically convinced to use them and they seem to offer decent protection for metadata (not technical, but policy-wise). There are, however, some upcoming developments which will change the situation in the next couple of months: 1) The…
I've heard Signal has US Government backing, which makes me scared for an NSA backdoor. Any idea about this?
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Encrypted video calls will crush mobile CPUs in my opinion, but indeed it would be nice to have one.
I'm curious if you have some real insight on this, because my understanding is that Facetime video calls are end-to-end encrypted, and the battery drain seems to be pretty minimal even on older devices.
This is a vague question: it depends entirely on the protocol you're about to use. I'll try to give a few answers anyway. First of all, if you want total encryption, you'll need to make sure your connection is encrypted and secured as well (meaning following you back is not trivial), so the whole messaging should go through Tor[1]. There are plugin solutions for bitlbee[2], for Pidgin[3], and many other clients suppo…