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Solution- Surveillance Profiling your identity and actions

Messaging is the most popular method for communicating on smartphones today. WhatsApp, SnapChat, Slack just to name a few, and of course the behemoths that is Facebook messenger and Google's Hangouts all offer messaging servuces. Its interesting to note that they are all working in silos - your friends and contacts need to use the save provider as there is no inter-service communications. 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 EFF's secure messaging scorecard.

• TextSecure and Silent apps for Android and iPhone respectively from WhisperSystem. Users of both apps can communicate with each other
• Telegram for all smartphone and desktop platforms
• SureSpot for Android and iPhone
• SilentPhone commercial solution from Silent Circle

• Parent: I want to communicate securely / Phone /

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• I want to send a secure SMS (text message)