Re: Just a though about whatsapp !!
I Originally Posted by
belfastdispatcher So basically would you ever recommend an Android device to a person that can only afford (or only needs/wants) one device considering banking is out of the question??
I don't consider banking out of the question. I've banked for years on BB, iPhone and Android without a qualm and will continue to do so. I do with all of them the one step of turning off wifi first. In all the years I've owned a smartphone I've never had an issue.
As a side note, these childish alts the trolls are using to stalk members here speak more to the BB fan base than the Android one, and they aren't making them look good. It must be quiet at other boards, or they feel the need to bully. It's really pathetic. How long until the IP bans start?
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Re: Just a though about whatsapp !!
Now I'm starting to think that BBM though BIS is slightly less secure than whatsapp in that since BBM over BIS uses the same key worldwide for all messages, you don't need to have captured the key exchange to be able to decrypt the messages between server and blackberry whereas you must have captured the key exchange part of a whatsapp conversation to decrypt it.
Calling BBM encrypted in the context of this conversation in comparison to the "just awful" whatsapp seems to be disingenuous. Naive and non technical users (such as myself which is quite obvious given the credit I was giving to BBM security earlier in the thread) can be easily mislead into thinking that BBM is secure, or given the relative derision shown to whatsapp I was lead to believe that BBM was much better. Shouldn't we as a community in general be a little more balanced and forthright when discussing this? Why didn't someone bring up the fact that BBM pin to pin communications are all encrypted with the same key?
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Just a though about whatsapp !!
prompted to upgrade my whatsapp...
and hey.. the new upgrade (which was pushed yesterday, i think) is much less laggy...
group message is smoother and broadcasting made easy with the last few upgrades...
thanks whatsapp...
messaging to my clients has made it much more easier now..
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Just a though about whatsapp !!
Originally Posted by
belfastdispatcher Right, I thought you were serious until you started questioning even the security of BES.
BES in the default configuration doesn't seem to be particularly secure. It does seem like it can be configured to be reasonably secure. However, I know very little about it and that's why I am asking how the encryption system is applied, how key exchange is accomplished, and so on.