“While Apple fights the demands of the FBI over encrypted iPhone data, the companies that help users communicate privately between such devices are working hard to dramatically increase their methods of security,” Jeremy Kahn reports for Bloomberg.
“Wire, a messaging app backed by Skype co-founder Janus Friis, is the latest to add end-to-end encryption and secure video communication to its service, the company announced today, as it tries to gain traction against rival communications platforms,” Kahn reports. “The service, which rolled out in December 2014, has tried to distinguish itself with a sleek, uncluttered design and its ability to operate on any device, desktop to mobile, and across all major operating systems.”
“Wire seems in many ways to be following a similar marketing playbook to that used by Telegram, which has grown rapidly since its debut in 2013,” Kahn reports. “Telegram touts its encryption, appealing to users increasingly concerned about government surveillance.”
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MacDailyNews Take: For every action, there is an opposite and not necessarily equal reaction.
The overreaching U.S. government may cause more encryption, not less, with its attacks on Apple.
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