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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="../assets/xml/rss.xsl" media="all"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Caught in the Net (Posts about instant messaging)</title><link>francescomecca.eu</link><description></description><atom:link href="francescomecca.eu/categories/instant-messaging.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><language>en</language><copyright>Contents © 2018 &lt;a href="mailto:francescomecca.eu"&gt;Francesco Mecca&lt;/a&gt; </copyright><lastBuildDate>Sat, 10 Nov 2018 17:14:03 GMT</lastBuildDate><generator>Nikola (getnikola.com)</generator><docs>http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss</docs><item><title>Phone messaging apps comparison</title><link>francescomecca.eu/blog/2016/7/6/im-services/</link><dc:creator>Francesco Mecca</dc:creator><description>&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;I made this chart for a presentation at the &lt;a href="https://cyber.law.harvard.edu/"&gt;Berkman Klein Center&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;table&gt;
&lt;thead&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;th&gt;&lt;/th&gt;
&lt;th align="center"&gt;Whatsapp&lt;/th&gt;
&lt;th align="center"&gt;Telegram&lt;/th&gt;
&lt;th align="right"&gt;Signal&lt;/th&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;/thead&gt;
&lt;tbody&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td&gt;Source code&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td align="center"&gt;closed source&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td align="center"&gt;open source&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td align="right"&gt;open source&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td&gt;Api&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td align="center"&gt;none&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td align="center"&gt;various&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td align="right"&gt;library&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td&gt;Encription protocol&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td align="center"&gt;state of the art&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td align="center"&gt;self made&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td align="right"&gt;state of the art&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td&gt;Contact list location&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td align="center"&gt;cloud&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td align="center"&gt;cloud&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td align="right"&gt;cloud, encrypted&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td&gt;Forward Secrecy&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td align="center"&gt;yes&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td align="center"&gt;yes&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td align="right"&gt;yes&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td&gt;Database&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td align="center"&gt;phone storage&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td align="center"&gt;cloud&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td align="right"&gt;phone storage&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td&gt;Backup capability&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td align="center"&gt;Icloud or Gcloud&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td align="center"&gt;builtin&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td align="right"&gt;none&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td&gt;Revenue&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td align="center"&gt;ads (Facebook)&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td align="center"&gt;donation based&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td align="right"&gt;donation based&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td&gt;Federation&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td align="center"&gt;no&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td align="center"&gt;no&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td align="right"&gt;no&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td&gt;Alternative download location&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td align="center"&gt;website&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td align="center"&gt;F-Droid&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td align="right"&gt;none&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td&gt;Uses third party services&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td align="center"&gt;no&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td align="center"&gt;no&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td align="right"&gt;Google Cloud Messaging&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td&gt;Servers location&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td align="center"&gt;US&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td align="center"&gt;Russia&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td align="right"&gt;US&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td&gt;Tied to mobile number&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td align="center"&gt;yes&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td align="center"&gt;yes, but nickname available&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td align="right"&gt;yes&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td&gt;Desktop client&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td align="center"&gt;no&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td align="center"&gt;yes&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td align="right"&gt;no&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;/tbody&gt;
&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><category>instant messaging</category><category>messaging protocols</category><category>PesceWanda</category><category>signal</category><category>telegram</category><category>whatsapp</category><guid>francescomecca.eu/blog/2016/7/6/im-services/</guid><pubDate>Wed, 06 Jul 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item></channel></rss>