Secret Documents Show Which Message Apps Are the Most FBI-Proof

The document: https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/21114562/jan-2021... (PDF)

> FBI's ability to legally access secure content on leading messaging applications

From the article:

Nine popular messaging applications are included in the document:

- Apple's iMessage

- Line, a Japanese message app

- Signal, an open source encrypted chat platform popularized by Edward Snowden

- Telegram, which originated in Russia and is now based in Dubai

- Threema, a paid encryption chat with servers based in Switzerland

- Viber, which was developed in Cyprus and then bought by the Japanese conglomerate Rakuten

- the Chinese Swiss army knife app WeChat

- Meta's WhatsApp

- and Wickr, which is a chat service that Amazon Web Services apparently owns

> The bottom line: of the most popular apps, iMessage and WhatsApp are particularly susceptible to FBI snooping. Telegram and Signal score far better according to the documents.