Let's talk about the most private, secure, and anonymous messengers! Today we'll compare WhatsApp, Signal, Telegram, Facebook Messenger, iMessage, Session, Threema, Briar, SMS, Matrix, Wickr, & XMPP.

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00:00 Introduction 00:41 Project Funding 01:25 End-to-end encryption? (E2EE) 02:05 Default E2EE Settings 02:46 Is it FOSS? (Open Source) 03:50 Public Transparency Report? 05:04 What information required to register? 06:48 Metadata Collection 08:54 Encrypted cloud backups? 11:23 Timestamp & IP Logs? 12:02 Security Audits? 13:40 Onion Routing? 14:17 Destructing Messages? 15:47 Recap & Summary!

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