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.
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.
NSA: WE HAVE EVERYTHING............................
Appreciate any suggestions.
Bwa-ha-ha-ha-ha..!
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.
You’d basically have to create your own phone with its own software.
I’ll look up Signal, thanks! (facetime is a no go for the android users)
Two OJ cans and a string?
LOL! Post 9. The pic didn’t pop up until after I wrote the comment.
It’s a start.
Do you really think our phones can be made secure from gathering date by Apple
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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.
Tech Ping
Thx for the ping to your tech list.
Lol. The PiPhone. https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/piphone-home-made-raspberry-pi-smartphone/ About $100 in parts.
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://tox.chat/download.html
I use Signal, as do some of my coworkers and family. It’s available for mobile and for desktop.
pgp encrypted text is the most secure comms on the net.
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