9/22/16

Who wants to use Google Allo?.


Google Allo is a new announced chat app and it has really a new perspective as it does not make end-to-end encryption unlike its competitors :S

But what does it mean for messaging to make end-to-end encryption? Encrypted messages cannot be read by anyone other than the recipient, even if they are intercepted during the exchange. If the messages or the line does not encrypted, the messages can be read in such a case.

Google does not enable end-to-end encryption because it will be used for their business objectives.

This is not the only bad news about the Allo. Google declared that in the new versions, Allo will keep the messages persistently, until the user delete them.

"The version of Allo rolling out today will store all non-incognito messages by default — a clear change from Google’s earlier statements that the app would only store messages transiently and in non-identifiable form. The records will now persist until the user actively deletes them, giving Google default access to a full history of conversations in the app. Users can also avoid the logging by using Allo’s Incognito Mode, which is still fully end-to-end encrypted and unchanged from the initial announcement."

At least, Google says that the messages will be stored as encrypted on their servers.

"Like Hangouts and Gmail, Allo messages will still be encrypted between the device and Google servers, and stored on servers using encryption that leaves the messages accessible to Google’s algorithms."

Finally, we just wonder about who really wants to use Goolge Allo for secure messaging?

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