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10 - The Most Secure Messengers To Keep You Safe

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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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