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Whats The Most Secure End-To-End VOIP App For iOS & Android Users To Speak With Each Other On?
11/17/2020 | Bteclinger

Posted on 11/17/2020 6:19:43 AM PST by BTerclinger

Is anyone on FR using a smart phone VOIP app that touts their end-to-end security? Are you happy with it?

I understand we are taking a lot of companies word on what they say they do, and I know that at least one (Wire) says all their software is open source and is reviewed (on the Apple App store the top rated commment for Wire implies its not that secure.

And Apple's FaceTime is supposedly very secure and it is built in to the Iphone and Mac, but (a) I don't trust anything coming out of Tim Cook's mouth and (b) I need a set up where an iPhone user can speak securely with an Android user.

Multiple simultaneous users or a secure text chat would be a bonus, but the most important is for as secure as possible 1-1 voice communications, so "intimate, romantic voice calls remain private."

Thanks in advance any advice.


TOPICS: Computers/Internet; Military/Veterans; Society
KEYWORDS: opsecprivacy; p2p; pgp; phone; prepper; preppers; prepping; privacy; secure; shtf; tech; tox; voip; wickr
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1 posted on 11/17/2020 6:19:43 AM PST by BTerclinger
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To: BTerclinger

Signal and FaceTime Audio are both good, with Signal a bit better.

Skype was redesigned by Microsoft to connect to their Azure cloud, where it apparently gets decrypted before being re-encrypted back out to the destination.


2 posted on 11/17/2020 6:22:37 AM PST by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: BTerclinger

NSA: WE HAVE EVERYTHING............................

3 posted on 11/17/2020 6:23:55 AM PST by Red Badger (Democrats cheat. ... It's what they do. ... GUARANTEED! ... Even if it's not necessary!....)
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To: Squantos; Travis McGee; Oshkalaboomboom; srmanuel; Swordmaker; Jewbacca; Albion Wilde; alisasny; ...

Appreciate any suggestions.


4 posted on 11/17/2020 6:24:04 AM PST by BTerclinger (MAGA)
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To: Red Badger

Bwa-ha-ha-ha-ha..!


5 posted on 11/17/2020 6:25:30 AM PST by BTerclinger (MAGA)
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To: BTerclinger

Do you really think our phones can be made secure from gathering date by Apple or Android to turn over to the government?

I laugh. I laugh some more.


6 posted on 11/17/2020 6:25:40 AM PST by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is thp at they are both death cults. N)
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To: BTerclinger

You’d basically have to create your own phone with its own software.


7 posted on 11/17/2020 6:26:23 AM PST by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is thp at they are both death cults. N)
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To: ConservativeMind

I’ll look up Signal, thanks! (facetime is a no go for the android users)


8 posted on 11/17/2020 6:26:31 AM PST by BTerclinger (MAGA)
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To: Jonty30

Two OJ cans and a string?


9 posted on 11/17/2020 6:29:12 AM PST by rktman ( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: Red Badger

LOL! Post 9. The pic didn’t pop up until after I wrote the comment.


10 posted on 11/17/2020 6:30:07 AM PST by rktman ( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: rktman

It’s a start.


11 posted on 11/17/2020 6:32:11 AM PST by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is thp at they are both death cults. N)
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To: Jonty30

Do you really think our phones can be made secure from gathering date by Apple


You mean ‘data’ not ‘date’ I’m sure
Apple unqualified yes secure - is their part of their hardware model.

Android/Google absolutely not secure, else they’d destroy their business model.


12 posted on 11/17/2020 6:32:24 AM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: BTerclinger; rdb3; JosephW; Only1choice____Freedom; martin_fierro; Still Thinking; zeugma; ...

Tech Ping


13 posted on 11/17/2020 6:32:49 AM PST by ShadowAce (Linux - The Ultimate Windows Service Pack )
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To: BTerclinger


14 posted on 11/17/2020 6:38:26 AM PST by gundog ( Hail to the Chief, bitches!)
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To: ShadowAce

Thx for the ping to your tech list.


15 posted on 11/17/2020 6:41:26 AM PST by BTerclinger (MAGA)
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To: Jonty30

Lol. The PiPhone. https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/piphone-home-made-raspberry-pi-smartphone/ About $100 in parts.


16 posted on 11/17/2020 6:41:49 AM PST by tarpit
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To: BTerclinger

Just began testing it on Android, but a security friend and I have been testing the PC clients in both Linux and windows cross platform and it seems to be working very well back and forth from Germany. The TOX protocol and encryption has been verified as the most secure available as true P2P, end to end encrypted, device to device connection without a central server. Voice, video, file sharing, text messaging, Group option...

We are liking it so far.

https://qtox.github.io/

https://tox.chat/download.html


17 posted on 11/17/2020 6:48:25 AM PST by Openurmind (The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)
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To: BTerclinger

I use Signal, as do some of my coworkers and family. It’s available for mobile and for desktop.


18 posted on 11/17/2020 6:49:29 AM PST by Theo (FReeping since 1998 ... drain the swamp.)
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To: BTerclinger

pgp encrypted text is the most secure comms on the net.


19 posted on 11/17/2020 6:49:31 AM PST by lwd
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To: BTerclinger

https://wickr.com/


20 posted on 11/17/2020 6:52:00 AM PST by lwd
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