Hey guys how you doing?,
This time i wanna talk with you guys about the current state of security and anonimity of the most popular messaging apps and the reasonings why the Kore team is making one if there are soo many out there and some are pretty good.
Here is some pictures taken from https://www.securemessagingapps.com/ that show most of the things of concern on the current messagings apps that we use, and you should check this website if you use any of those apps so you can see their full list.
As you can see on the pictures i posted or on the website link i provided none of the best messaging apps is perfect and some other points of attack like SS7 and that is on the mobile network providers that we all use means none of the messaging apps that use some type of sms for confirmation is safe, what if i just say that your phone number is more than enough to read your text messages, eavesdrop phone calls and track your locations without your knowledge…Yes, it happened and it may or may not happen in the future to you too.
As disturbing this sounds this is something that people must be aware and take very seriously as one bad hack and there goes your privacy, fredoom and possibly your cryptos too!!!
After carefully researching for a good time about the technology on the best messagings apps, development, exploit fixes, source codes, academic papers, hackatons and etc, the team got to learn a lot and if you see the pictures i posted or the link for the website i posted you will notice that if you grab and combine the best of each app you will have a better app one that is more secure and private but that is not everything that will be needed to make it maybe the best we can and i wont tell much about other than that it might require some blockchain magic to make what we are doing, this has been a long time in the making and will play a role on the Korephone too, you will be able to see the messasing app whitepaper and the open source once it is out or maybe learn more about it on a youtube interview, we will see
Here are some of the reasonings for creating this app our privacy, security and freedom are of the utmost value to us and very important and we gotta protect it and that includes the tools we use for comunicating, so creating a tool for communicating with friends, family and doing bussines that is the most private, secure, anonymous and decentralized so it is censor free is something that is worth working and fighting for.
Cheers
Wow this is very interesting and disturbing indeed, i use whatsapp and telegram and i always thought they were more secure and after doing a google search i see that there is a lot of hacking reports on whatsapp and telegram on the web but people are not aware the situation is bad and think they are safe like i did, it is a great thing that you guys are doing to get the best from each app and combine and create a super secure messaging app that also uses blockchain tech, i really liked the concept from you guysThis time i wanna talk with you guys about the current state of security and anonimity of the most popular messaging apps and the reasonings why the Kore team is making one if there are soo many out there and some are pretty good.
Here is some pictures taken from https://www.securemessagingapps.com/ that show most of the things of concern on the current messagings apps that we use, and you should check this website if you use any of those apps so you can see their full list.
As you can see on the pictures i posted or on the website link i provided none of the best messaging apps is perfect and some other points of attack like SS7 and that is on the mobile network providers that we all use means none of the messaging apps that use some type of sms for confirmation is safe, what if i just say that your phone number is more than enough to read your text messages, eavesdrop phone calls and track your locations without your knowledge…Yes, it happened and it may or may not happen in the future to you too.
As disturbing this sounds this is something that people must be aware and take very seriously as one bad hack and there goes your privacy, fredoom and possibly your cryptos too!!!
After carefully researching for a good time about the technology on the best messagings apps, development, exploit fixes, source codes, academic papers, hackatons and etc, the team got to learn a lot and if you see the pictures i posted or the link for the website i posted you will notice that if you grab and combine the best of each app you will have a better app one that is more secure and private but that is not everything that will be needed to make it maybe the best we can and i wont tell much about other than that it might require some blockchain magic to make what we are doing, this has been a long time in the making and will play a role on the Korephone too, you will be able to see the messasing app whitepaper and the open source once it is out or maybe learn more about it on a youtube interview, we will see
Here are some of the reasonings for creating this app our privacy, security and freedom are of the utmost value to us and very important and we gotta protect it and that includes the tools we use for comunicating, so creating a tool for communicating with friends, family and doing bussines that is the most private, secure, anonymous and decentralized so it is censor free is something that is worth working and fighting for.
Cheers
Hey Hk85,
Yes the situation of the messaging apps and the whole cellphone hacking scene out there is disturbing and especially Whatsapp and Telegram which are very popular and can be hacked through SS7 attack, all you need is the person phone number and you can do this attack or if you do not have the phone number you can set up a fake cell tower on strategic spots like near important buildings.
This is part of the reasoning why we are combining the best of each app and will use TOR and blockchain technology to make this messaging app the best we can with the best technologies we have available.
Here is a academic paper talking about MITM attack on Signal: https://slashcrypto.org/data/when-signal-hits-the-fan-on-the-usability-and-security-of-state-of-the-art-secure-mobile-messaging.pdf
Here is a cool video that explains how the SS7 attack works: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1oA0O01SQUE
Cheers
Very cool these tips. A few weeks ago, hackers stole phone conversations from a very influential politician in my country.
This brought much repercussion and many criticisms to the politician. The conversations contained private information on the investigation and the prosecution of a judicial process.
But I do not think we need to be a famous politician to think about privacy. If you have patrimony and want to keep it or trade it with complete security, you need a secure and anonymous banking system. If you want to communicate and protect yourself, you need a secure and anonymous communication system. If you want to access a website or a web system, protecting your information, you need an anonymous browser.
These are the systems Kore is working on, the Kore currency, the browser, and the communication system.
