In the age of Internet surveillance, private and secure messaging is a necessity. The Electronic Frontier Foundation recently published a thorough analysis measuring the security and privacy of a long list of mobile and Internet messaging services.<\/p>\n
Some providers passed with flying colors, others struggled to make the grade and a number just plain failed. Today, we\u2019ll run through the good. Next week, we\u2019ll take a look at the bad.<\/p>\n
Nine mobile and Internet messaging services offering strong #security and #privacy controls<\/p>Tweet<\/a><\/blockquote>\n
The EFF issued up or down grades to each service for seven categories. For Kaspersky Daily, service providers needed to answer in the affirmative to at least six or more of the following questions to make our list (though we\u2019ll grant honorable mention to any service with four or more checks):<\/p>\n
1. Is data encrypted in transit?<\/p>\n
2. Is data encrypted so that even the service provider can\u2019t read it?<\/p>\n
3. Can you identify the true identity of contacts?<\/p>\n
4. Does the provider practice what is known as perfect forward secrecy, meaning crypto-keys are ephemeral so a stolen key won\u2019t decrypt existing communications?<\/p>\n
5. Is the service\u2019s code open-source and available for public review?<\/p>\n
6. Are cryptographic implementation procedures and processes documented?<\/p>\n
7. Has there been an independent security audit in the last 12 months?<\/p>\n
\nWhich messaging technologies are truly safe & secure? See EFF\u2019s
'Secure Messaging Scorecard' https:\/\/t.co\/eBVIY9xgGB<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/sBeF0QquAx<\/a><\/p>\n\u2014 EFF (@EFF) November 4, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n