TextSecure: End-to-End encrypted and Open Source Messaging app

With revelations of NSA spying and some of the most jaw-dropping surveillance leaks, many people feel unencrypted and central-server service is bad in most of the cases, but end-to-end encryption can be used to reduce this problem. Worldwide Government surveillance raises privacy concerns and...

5 Best WhatsApp alternatives with end-to-end Encryption

WhatsApp acquisition may have had a negative impact on the reputation of the company, it seems many users are planning to switch the service and a few of them have already done it. In our previous article, we have mentioned that why you should switch from WhatsApp to an encrypted Chat messaging...

Why You need to Stop using WhatsApp?

If you haven’t heard by now, Facebook just made its biggest move ever, buying the messaging service WhatsApp in a deal worth some $19 billion. That’s 19 times what Facebook paid for Instagram two years ago. The WhatsApp Service run by the team of just 32 engineers, handles more than 50 Billion...

Moxie Marlinspike on TextSecure CyanogenMod integration

Moxie Marlinspike Moxie Marlinspike has published landmark research on SSL vulnerabilities, taken on certificate authorities and even built an alternative to CAs as we know them today called Convergence. But now that government surveillance and online privacy have been elevated to mainstream...

Apple releases new details on National Security Requests

Apple revealed on monday that it received between 4,000 and 5,000 data requests in six months from U.S. law enforcement for user information and affected accounts. Apple said the most common forms of requests involved investigating robberies and other crimes. Period between December 1, 2012 and M...

Apple Fields Data Requests for 10,000 Users Accounts

Since December, U.S. law enforcement agencies have made between 4,000 and 5,000 requests for customer data from Apple on as many 10,000 user accounts, the company said in a statement released last night. Apple said in the wake of allegations that it participates in feeding the U.S. government...

Visa Announces New Data Encryption Practices

Visa has announced new global best practices for data field encryption, also known as end-to-end encryption – a much-discussed solution in the wake of the Heartland Payment Systems breach. Announced by the global credit card company on Monday, these best practices are designed to further the...