Which messaging app is safer, FBI doc particulars every

FBI doc detailing its authorized entry to safe messaging apps like WhatsApp, Telegram, iMessage, Line, Viber.

The doc, which seems to have been obtained by a gaggle referred to as Property of the Folks (LINK TO VIEW THE DOCUMENT) by means of a FOIA request, particulars the FBI’s capacity to “legally entry safe messaging app content material and metadata.”

Based on the doc, the FBI can’t entry message content material from Telegram, WeChat, or Wickr.

Doc mentions that FBI can acquire “restricted” entry to iMessage, WhatsApp and Line messages.

Sign is lengthy thought of as one of the crucial safe end-to-end encrypted messaging apps, and the doc states that it could possibly’t entry a lot data in any respect. The one data Sign retains is the time and date {that a} person registered for the service, and the final date of a person utilizing it.

Though unclassified, the doc says it’s “for official use solely” and is designated as “regulation enforcement delicate.”