Viber that rounds out top-10 most secure messengers takes 47 points.
The application for fast e-mail communication Line created by the Japanese shares the place with Viber, it also received 47 points.
The experts gave 53 points to the messenger Hangouts – the offspring of Google company. By means of the application the users can change sms and mms, however the messenger doesn't afford an opportunity to use an encryption approach «end-to-end».
One more messenger from Google is Duo – also renders possible to exchange messages at minimum risk. The application takes 53 points from the experts.
Allo is the third messenger from Google which has got 53 points. The encryption technology «end-to-end» that is available in the application makes a conversation between two persons extremely secure.
Telegram, created by the founder of social web «Vkontakte» Pavel Durov, is accepted as one of the most reliable messengers. The experts estimated the application in 67 points but still noted the encryption approach «end-to-end» was not included to Telegram on default.
FaceTime, a messenger from Apple, also takes 67 points.
A popular messenger of the company from Cupertino – iMessage – has taken exciting 73 points. The experts marks that the most secure applications for fast message exchange carefully ciphers the information of conversation. The person who uses this type of messengers can speak his mind freely and reckon on privacy right.
WhatsApp from Facebook and Facebook Messenger are accepted by the experts of Amnesty International as more secure messengers.
It's worthy of note that Skype was not included in top-10 most secure applications for fast message exchange, it took only 40 points. Such messengers as Snapchat, Blackberry Messenger, QQ, WeChat were also not highly estimated.
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