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Google Hangouts, iMessage, fb Chat "Audited"? Wish they could point readers to those audits.. Skype "encrypted so the provider can't read it" even though MS is
by justcommenting 12y ago
Google Hangouts, iMessage, fb Chat "Audited"? Wish they could point readers to those audits..
Skype "encrypted so the provider can't read it" even though MS is a known NSA PRISM partner? Recent disclosures quite strongly suggest otherwise.
Also weird that they didn't sort these options by ranking. it took me a while to realize that they weren't displaying everything ranked by default (or the "winners"). to see that, choose 'all tools' from the drop-down.
- JshWright 12y agoYeah, there are several apps that check every box, but aren't displayed in the 'featured' list.
- AlyssaRowan 12y agoConfirm: Skype doesn't deserve that second checkbox. It is now centralised, is a specific real-time PRISM source, including full chat logs, and does indeed read the messages going through it. Try posting a URL on there and watching an anti-malware scanner ping it sometime. I don't know if they're still doing that, but they definitely were.
- MichaelGG 12y agoIt deserves it as much as iMessage, doesn't it?
- higherpurpose 12y agoWhich means neither deserves it.
- josho 12y ago? My understanding of iMessage is end to end encryption. Where the endpoints are the separate certificates on each of your devices.
- MichaelGG 12y agoAFAIK, iMessage encrypts the message on your device. But Apple sends the list of keys to encrypt to. If that list is accurate and only includes the public keys of the target user, fine. But you've no way to verify this. I don't see how Skype is any worse.
- AlyssaRowan 12y agoI have not analysed iMessage, but I don't believe it takes positive steps to deter reverse-engineering/auditing like Skype.