![]() ![]() ![]() Neither you nor the application have any control over the OS and device drivers on most devices. Also the app passes plaintext through the same OS user area, kernal area and a different set of device drivers for the “human interface” hardware. With all the apps as they currently are pass ciphertext through through the OS user area, to the kernal area and then on to the device driver for the “communications” hardware. ![]() Whilst it might sound like a bold contrarian statement, it isn’t, it’s a statment of practical reality.Īn application is entirely usless on it’s own, it needs to run on an operating system which in turn provides connectivity to most of the hardware on your device. I have said and will continue to say none of the existing messaging apps are secure in use. What are some alternatives to Signal and Whisper? For Android and iOS? Tags: blackmail, children, data collection, data loss, leaks, secret sharing I hope people didn’t confess things from their bedrooms. The data also included the location coordinates of the users’ last submitted post, many of which pointed back to specific schools, workplaces and residential neighborhoods. The exposed records did not include real names but did include a user’s stated age, ethnicity, gender, hometown, nickname and any membership in groups, many of which are devoted to sexual confessions and discussion of sexual orientation and desires. ![]() A Post reporter was able to freely browse and search through the records, many of which involved children: A search of users who had listed their age as 15 returned 1.3 million results. The records were viewable on a non-password-protected database open to the public Web. Whisper, the secret-sharing app that called itself the “safest place on the Internet,” left years of users’ most intimate confessions exposed on the Web tied to their age, location and other details, raising alarm among cybersecurity researchers that users could have been unmasked or blackmailed. The Whisper Secret-Sharing App Exposed Locations ![]()
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