Unfortunately, Skype, AIM and Blackberry Messenger attained merely one point, whereas Viber, Google Hangouts, Facebook Messenger and Snapchat scored as high as just two points. The highest score a secure messenger could get was seven points. Research by Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) showed that the majority of popular messengers do not boast high security levels.
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The skeptical treatment messengers receive from so many users is totally justified.
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#IFA15: 77% of all users wish to have protection from tracking their privacy Information.
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It would be useful to find out how many of them actually saw their data exposed online, yet the stats did not cover this information. At the same time, 37% of participants prefer online messengers, 25% are into social network messengers and 15% frequently use VoIP.īesides, 17% of users employ electronic means of communication to exchange private and critical data. Recent research, commissioned by Kaspersky Lab and conducted by B2B International, showed that 62% of respondents don’t think online messengers are secure, 61% don’t trust VoIP services and 60% don’t feel protected when conversing in a video chat. However, this happens every day by many of us without a second thought or consideration of consequence. It goes without saying that it’s a bad idea to use insecure means of communication. What is the best channel to exchange private information on? Or even better, what channels should you avoid using for this type of sharing?