Messenger Apps are Increasing Security for your Personal Protection

Messenger Apps are Increasing Security for your Personal Protection

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It is a fact that many instant messages sent over popular messaging apps can be intercepted and read. It is even possible for people to impersonate you or your friends using the apps which can lead to some dangerous consequences.

However, there are messaging apps that have noted this and did something about it. Some of them will encrypt your messages as you send them, so if a third party intercepts them before they reach its intended recipient, the message will be meaningless. Some apps are better at this than others, but as security is becoming a factor that many people now look at when choosing an app, it should be something that app developers take seriously.

Recently the most popular messaging app WhatsApp enabled end to end encryption services across all platforms. This means that the message that someone sends can’t be read by anyone other than the person sending the message or the person it is sent to. There is also the option to provide a security code so you can verify that no one is intercepting your messages. Although this is important for personal messages, it is even more vital for work messaging.

Apps like WeChat also encrypts messages ensuring that third parties can’t snoop. However, users have to be careful, because if for example the user chooses to favourite a message, it is automatically saved to the servers of the app. Or if you translate a message on the app, then it will use a third-party translation service to do this.

Security is becoming an ever more important factor when people are choosing what messaging app to use, and developers should consider how to make security even better in the future.

To discover more interesting facts about messenger apps, take a look at the infographic below designed by the team at skilled.co.