Among the many reasons why we use an instant messaging application or another rarely is the security that it guarantees us for our communications, but the truth is that this is one of the really important characteristics if we value the protection of our identity. Which of them are the most appropriate for this purpose? We show you the conclusions of a recent study on the subject.
iMessage and Telegram, the ones that come out the best
The study has been carried out by Electronic Frontier Foundation and has compared up 36 instant messaging apps different to check which of them best fit the safety standards. The test basically consisted of verifying which of the 7 basic security measures are met or not in each case: encryption of messages, inability by the service provider to read them, possibility of verifying the identity of contacts, protection of our past communications in case of theft, open source to independent review, accreditation of security design and external audit of the code.
The truth is that the results are not very good for the most popular messaging services (or for most of the less popular ones, to tell the truth), which usually meet only a couple of criteria: the encryption of the message and the external audit Of code. This is the case, for example, of WhatsApp, Google Hangouts, Snapchat o Facebook Chat. Within this group of most used applications, only a couple of them get approved, imessages y Telegram, both fulfilling 5 of that 7 criteria (a imessages The possibility of verifying the identity of the contacts and the fact that the code is open to independent review fails, since Telegram protection of messages in case of theft and external code audit).
If you want to check the result of these or any of the other 36 applications, in this link you have the complete list.
Source: 9to5google.com