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Rescooped by David Slepkow from Lapin Law Offices |
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David Slepkow's insight:
Using the 7 criteria, either a green checkmark or a red "no" symbol was placed on the Scorecard.
Only six apps received all green checkmarks: ChatSecure; CryptoCat; Signal/Redphone; Silent Phone; Silent Text; and TextSecure.
The EFF Scorecard results for some of the more popular messaging apps and tools:
- Apple FaceTime: 5 green checkmarks
- Apple iMessage: 5 green checkmarks
- Facebook chat: 2 green checkmarks
- Google Hangouts: 2 green checkmarks
- Skype: 2 green checkmarks
- SnapChat: 2 green checkmarks
- WhatsApp: 2 green checkmarks
- AIM: 1 green checkmark
- Kik Messenger: 1 green checkmark
- Yahoo! Messenger: 1 green checkmark
These scores may be surprising to some who thought their messages were more secure.
The EFF is quick to point out that the scorecard results “should not be read as endorsements of individual tools or guarantees of their security” and that closer examinations of many of the apps and tools will be conducted later.
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The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) created a Scorecard to measure the actual security of “secure messaging” tools and apps. None of the popular messaging apps received a perfect score and some received a very low grade. Apple’s FaceTime and iMessage had some of the higher scores among the popular apps. The EFF’s results may be very surprising to some who thought their messages were very secure.
Read the full post by Jeffrey Lapin on Lapin Law Offices’ Blogger Blog: “Secure” Messaging Not As Protected As You Might Think (http://lapinlawoffices.blogspot.com/2014/11/secure-messaging-not-as-protected-as-you-might-think.html)
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) created a Scorecard to measure the actual security of “secure messaging” tools and apps. None of the popular messaging apps received a perfect score and some received a very low grade. Apple’s FaceTime and iMessage had some of the higher scores among the popular apps. The EFF’s results may be very surprising to some who thought their messages were very secure.
Read the full post by Jeffrey Lapin on Lapin Law Offices’ Blogger Blog: “Secure” Messaging Not As Protected As You Might Think (http://lapinlawoffices.blogspot.com/2014/11/secure-messaging-not-as-protected-as-you-might-think.html)