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Edit a Scenario Task: I want to send & receive secure messages from my phone
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Messaging is the most popular method for communicating on smartphones today. [https://www.whatsapp.com/ WhatsApp], [https://www.snapchat.com/ SnapChat], [https://slack.com/ Slack], just to name a few, and of course the behemoths that are [https://www.facebook.com/mobile/messenger Facebook messenger] and [http://www.google.com/+/learnmore/hangouts/ Google Hangouts] all offer messaging services. It's interesting to note that they are all working in silos - your friends and contacts need to use the same provider as there is no inter-service communication. In general, they are not considered private since the provider has access to your messages. Messaging apps that perform [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/End-to-end_encryption end-to-end encryption] and publish their methods and source code in the public domain are considered here as private messaging tools. You can see a review of multiple apps on the [https://www.eff.org/secure-messaging-scorecard EFF's secure messaging scorecard]. *Signal for [https://ssd.eff.org/en/module/how-use-signal-android Android] and [https://ssd.eff.org/en/module/how-use-signal-ios iPhone] from [https://whispersystems.org/ WhisperSystem] *[https://telegram.org Telegram] for all smartphone and desktop platforms *[https://www.surespot.me SureSpot] for Android and iPhone *[https://www.silentcircle.com/products-and-solutions/software/ SilentPhone], a commercial solution from Silent Circle *[http://www.bleep.pm/ Bleep], an encrypted peer-to-peer chat infrastructure using BitTorrent <br />
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