Let's talk about the most private, secure, and anonymous messengers! Today we'll compare WhatsApp, Signal, Telegram, Facebook Messenger, iMessage, Session, Threema, Briar, SMS, Matrix, Wickr, & XMPP.

Top 5 Messengers Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVwl892hqb4
Secure Messaging Chart: https://www.securemessagingapps.com/

00:00 Introduction
00:41 Project Funding
01:25 End-to-end encryption? (E2EE)
02:05 Default E2EE Settings
02:46 Is it FOSS? (Open Source)
03:50 Public Transparency Report?
05:04 What information required to register?
06:48 Metadata Collection
08:54 Encrypted cloud backups?
11:23 Timestamp & IP Logs?
12:02 Security Audits?
13:40 Onion Routing?
14:17 Destructing Messages?
15:47 Recap & Summary!

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