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Secret Documents Show Which Message Apps Are the Most FBI-Proof
- lioeters 5y agoThe document: https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/21114562/jan-2021-fbi-infographic-re-lawful-access-to-secure-messaging-apps-data.pdf https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/21114562/jan-2021... (PDF) > FBI's ability to legally access secure content on leading messaging applications From the article: Nine popular messaging applications are included in the document: - Apple's iMessage - Line, a Japanese message app - Signal, an open source encrypted chat platform popularized by Edward Snowden - Telegram, which originated in Russia and is now based in Dubai - Threema, a paid encryption chat with servers based in Switzerland - Viber, which was developed in Cyprus and then bought by the Japanese conglomerate Rakuten - the Chinese Swiss army knife app WeChat - Meta's WhatsApp - and Wickr, which is a chat service that Amazon Web Services apparently owns > The bottom line: of the most popular apps, iMessage and WhatsApp are particularly susceptible to FBI snooping. Telegram and Signal score far better according to the documents.