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It would be nice if Whatsapp, which is so popular, would help make its users a lot more secure by adopting end-to-end encryption, perhaps like what TextSecure v
by salient 13y ago
It would be nice if Whatsapp, which is so popular, would help make its users a lot more secure by adopting end-to-end encryption, perhaps like what TextSecure v2 is using.
Getting people to use services with proper encryption is going to be a very slow process unless we convince/pressure the big ones to do it.
- mxchael 13y agoBut you can't make any money with encrypted data.
- sturmeh 13y agoSo like Telegram, which is basically the same app but nobody uses it? (http://telegram.org/ http://telegram.org/)
- mvanotti 13y agoWow, this sounds awesome. I hope it becomes popular :)
- macalicious 13y agoWow, never heard of it before today. This should definitely be promoted more! I was surprised there was only one old news here on HN. I submitted a new one: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6913456 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6913456
- m-app 13y ago"Very secure. We are based on a new protocol, MTProto, built by our own specialists from scratch, with security in mind." I do not think that is such a great idea. I still vote Threema: https://threema.ch/ https://threema.ch/