Users can send text, photo, and video messages as well as voice memos, benefiting from end-to-end encryption and two-step verification, which periodically asks for a password in order to access the app. End-to-end encryption is an option, but it still has to be manually activated for every single conversation by choosing Secret Conversation in the chat window when messaging a contact.Ī simple set-up, automatic synchronization with your phone contacts, and an experience rich in features and free of advertisements make WhatsApp an extremely popular messaging app. There is also a Lite version for just Androids, which offers a more streamlined experience that makes it more affordable in terms of data usage. Users access the app through Facebook and can send others normal chat messages as well as voice and video messages and calls.
It’s a dedicated client that’s based upon the existing chat network, adding further multimedia communication features. Facebook Messengerįacebook’s foray into the world of mobile messaging is called Messenger. Now let’s have a look at the most used chat apps, all compatible with iOS and Android, and try to understand the differences and what methods they use to protect users’ text, photo, and video messages, a “detail” that everyone should consider before opening up their own digital world to the first developer they come across. Messenger also deserves a special mention as a spin-off of the most populous social network, Facebook, and is practically used “only” by members of Zuckerberg’s network, with its several billion active users. In fact, behind WhatsApp lies a dense thicket of more or less famous software that are not always so similar, but have their own following. The risk of getting lost among the myriad of similar applications is high. The second: the decreed death of SMS messages and the consolidation of more interesting and “richer” methods of remote communication. The first: the rapid spread of smartphones and the internet.
The recent boom of chat platforms is due to two triggering factors.
The company didn’t give in, if nothing else than for obvious technical reasons (end-to-end encryption is no joke), and is now being banned throughout the entire country.īut getting a glimpse into the platform where text, photo, and video messages are shared is somewhat the dream of every government in the world, as well as of every jealous partner, every father not too convinced of his daughter’s new boyfriend, and anyone who has time to waste butting into other people’s business. The most recent is that of the Russian government which, on more than one occasion, asked Telegram to give it the encryption keys of citizens registered with the service. The growing importance of chat applications can easily be seen by the number of attempts to infiltrate them (or to scam users).
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