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A piece of encryption software for mobile instant messaging that is relatively easy to install and use is Threema https://threema.ch/en/ https://threema.ch/en/.
by znq 13y ago
A piece of encryption software for mobile instant messaging that is relatively easy to install and use is Threema https://threema.ch/en/ https://threema.ch/en/. It appears to be quite popular among 30C3 attendees this year. I was also able to convince about 20 of my non-geek friends to use it instead of WhatsApp.
It doesn't support group chat on Android yet (on iOS it does), but it's under development.
The security section on the FAQ page might be interesting to HN readers: https://threema.ch/en/faq.html https://threema.ch/en/faq.html
(I'm not affiliated with Threema)
- XorNot 13y agoI'm noticing this app is not open-source in anyway. That's game-over with the types of threats HN is concerned about these days. Of course to some degree, the smartphone is so compromised in so many different ways that it's basically not even worth trying. Your SIM card runs code against you, the OS reports back in dozens of ways to 2-3 different entities, app stores can't be trusted, advertisers...
- znq 13y agoThe app itself is not, but the crypto part is. Also see https://threema.ch/validation/ https://threema.ch/validation/