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There are dozens of messaging apps out there with equal or better encryption than iMessage and also multi OS support. Vendor lock-in doesn't mean better securit
by paxys 3y ago
There are dozens of messaging apps out there with equal or better encryption than iMessage and also multi OS support. Vendor lock-in doesn't mean better security.
- wharvle 3y agoQuality of security aside, I'd be curious which encrypted messaging apps have the highest quantity of (encrypted—some support unencrypted, also, as Messages does) messages flowing through them in a given day—for, say, US users, as that's the jurisdiction of the government whose motives are being questioned, so seems the most relevant. One can imagine a case of a particular app drawing law enforcement's and/or intelligence services' ire not because it's the best, but because they're seeing a lot more conversations they wish they could read, but can't (easily), going over that channel than any other single one.
- zamadatix 3y agoI'd say Facebook Messenger is probably near the top of that in the US now that they've defaulted to end to end encryption.