http://news.techworld.com/security/3584204/popular-messaging-apps-fail-effs-security-review/
By Lucian Constantin
Techworld.com
04 November 2014
Some of the most widely used messaging apps in the world, including Google
Hangouts, Facebook chat, Yahoo Messenger and Snapchat, flunked a
best-practices security test by advocacy group the Electronic Frontier
Foundation (EFF).
The organization evaluated 39 messaging products based on seven criteria
it believes such tools should meet in order to ensure the privacy and
security of digital communications.
The reviewed products included mobile texting apps, instant messaging
clients, voice and video calling software and email services. The results
were published Tuesday under the form of a Secure Messaging Scorecard.
The EFF did not perform vulnerability assessments or in-depth technical
analyses of the encryption implementations in the reviewed products.
Instead it judged them based on principles and features it felt are
necessary to protect communications from widespread Internet surveillance
by governments, which includes data collection in transit or from online
service providers.
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