> 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.
> 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.