Best Secure Messaging App | FBI Document Leaked

According to a recently unearthed FBI training paper, US law enforcement has limited access to the content of encrypted communications transmitted through secure messaging platforms like iMessage, Line, and WhatsApp, but not messages sent through Signal, Telegram, Threema, Viber, WeChat, or Wickr.

The document, obtained earlier this month after Property of the People, a US nonprofit dedicated to government transparency, filed a FOIA request, appears to contain training advice for what kind of data agents can obtain from encrypted messaging service operators and the legal processes they must go through.

The document, which is dated January 7, 2021, doesn't contain any new information, but it does a decent job of summarizing what type of information the FBI can now access from each of the mentioned services.

Previous news reports have already exposed that the FBI has legal levers at its disposal to obtain various types of personal information, even from secure messaging providers that often boast about providing increased privacy to their users, as Forbes reporter Thomas Brewster said on Twitter earlier this week.

While the document indicates that the FBI is unable to access encrypted conversations sent through some platforms, the other types of information obtained from providers may still be useful to authorities in other areas of their investigations.

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What is a FOIA request - 00:00
Is SMS Secure - 00:38
FBI Document Leak - 01:32
WhatsApp - 02:11
iMessage - 04:45
Telegram - 06:26
Signal - 09:05

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[sideofburritos]

What app do you use to message? Thinking about switching?

[Thaidory]

In Russia when FSB requested data from Telegram - they eventually granted those requests.

[PJHamann]

An ideological non-profit can cooperate with a government that it deems to be working in the public good or the common interest. Being non-profit in no way means that an entity will act in your best interest.

[nelauren]

Life expectation # 1: no one is going to jail for you. They will disclose everything if it means they will stay out of jail or avoid a fine.

[parasportz]

Hmmm....Signal requires your phone number for registration...thats not private...

[Nikolaibinner]

Man I really love your content, extremely helpful and valuable but take care with the Wikipedia statement, they definitely have an agenda, framing activists as right wingers, conspiracy theorists and so on. Besides that love your take on things! I'm a fan

[phlippbergamot]

Have you tried Session? Any idea how secure the Session app is?

[christodd]

Any reason you didn’t mention Apple’s Advanced Data Protection, where you maintain the encryption keys?

[xenoneuronics]

Now do keyboards. It doesn't matter how secure your messenger app is, if your keyboard is just a fancy keylogger

[lissajia]

it seems to me that the most private messenger at the moment is the decentralized ecosystem Utopia

[macaroni.ravioli]

Can we get an update video on this.... Especially Telegram.. AS things possibly change since Telegram CEO's arrest? Thanks 🌊

[andrewayling]

Excellent advice, sensible advice nice video👍

[grim.heart]

Whatsapp backups aren't encrypted by default. You need manually enable and set recovery password to unencrypt the data. Most users wouldn't do what.

[bci]

Telegram in Germany is under strict observation by the BND.

[tommydiscorpio]

This list is only about official requests to those messenger providers and what data the FBI can obtain. But you have to consider the case that an agency or law enforcement get‘s (temporarily) physical access to your mobile phone. They attach your phone to some hardware, dump the memory and let some forensic tool do the analysis. Which messenger will stand this attack with locally encrypted messages, that can‘t be decrypted by such a forensic tool!?

[Iswimandrun]

But Briar project there is no central server if I understand correctly.

[D.u.d.e.r]

Thank u for this video recommendation👍

[ibdubbya]

From the stance you take in your videos, I’m inclined to think you don’t use SMS at all. One reason I’ve liked Signal is how it has allowed me to remain connected to the skads of friends and family who depend on SMS (or couldn’t care less about the difference between it and more encrypted ways of messaging).

Have you weighed in on Signal’s decision to go strictly e2ee? Any thoughts on this hot topic for those of us with dozens of friends and family still bound to SMS?

[tuckerkrause]

Since Signal is removing SMS compatability, what would you recommend for GrapheneOS messengers? Since I'm looking to buy a Pixel and switch to Graphene, just stick with the default SMS app or something else?

[Blendas.]

I very appreciate the content !!
Do you have an idea of how safe is the telegram proxy feature ? Will it really hide my IP ?