Best WhatsApp alternatives with end-to-end Encryption

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Best WhatsApp alternatives with end-to-end Encryption

WhatsApp acquisition may have had a negative impact on the reputation of the company, it seems many users are planning to switch the service and a few of them have already done it.



Mobile messaging apps often used to deliver sensitive data or used for personal and corporate communications, so the data stored by the service provider should be encrypted end-to-end, which is not yet in the case of WhatsApp.

There are many mobile messaging applications like Japan-based Line, China’s WeChat, Korea-based KakaoTalk, and Canada’s Kik, India-based Hike and many more, but they are not end-to-end encrypted messengers.

Time is loudly announcing the need to shift to some alternates which provides end-to-end encryption for communication between two devices and respect your Privacy. There are a number of solutions available includes - Telegram, Surespot, Threema, TextSecure, RedPhone etc.

1.) Telegram offers end-to-end encryption and have a 'Secret Chat' feature, that self-destruct messages after the conversation.

"We support two layers of secure encryption (server-client and client-client). Our encryption is based on 256-bit symmetric AES encryption, RSA 2048 encryption and Diffie–Hellman secure key exchange." Company states on their website.

Regular and Secret chats are encrypted, but during Secret chat no data stored on the company server.

There are a couple of more advantages Telegram brings which really are interesting. Telegram is free and an open source project, which means that the source code of the project is freely available, and according to their official website, 'Telegram has an open API and protocol free for everyone'.

Download Telegram for Android and iOS.

2.) Surespot allows you to send and receive text messages, pictures and audio clip with end-to-end encryption. It uses 256 bit AES-GCM encryption using keys created with 521 bit ECDH which can only be decrypted by sender and receiver.

Unlike WhatsApp, if you delete a message, it's deleted from the recipient's phone, too. Surespot supports multiple identities on a single device. Download Surespot for Android and iOS.

3.) Threema is not free, but a perfect alternate for WhatsApp, use end-to-end encryption and gives you all features of WhatsApp like text messaging, image sharing, and voice chat as well.

You can also sync your contact list automatically and manually. German users have started a shift to Threema after Facebook's acquisition and the app have become top paid app on the app store in Germany. Download Threema for iOS and Android.

4.) TextSecure and 5.) RedPhone also provides end-to-end encryption for messaging and voice calls respectively. RedPhone allows you to upgrade a normal call to secure call whenever it senses the possibility to fulfil the requirements.

TextSecure encrypts the messages stored locally, making your information hard to leak even if you lost your device. Download TextSecure for Android and Download RedPhone for Android.

So, if you are also now planning to switch, get any of above best suitable mobile messaging application for you.

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How to Hide WhatsApp 'Last seen at' Time and Profile Picture from Other

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WhatsApp for Android added most awaited privacy option for all who do not want to display information about when they last used the app.

This is the first impressive update of the WhatsApp after acquisition by Facebook, who has paid a lot of money in cash and stock to acquire it.

The Popular Smartphone messaging application WhatsApp version 2.11.169 will provide you more ability and control over privacy options i.e. Hiding ‘last seen at’ time, Profile picture, status updates from others, which are currently visible for all WhatsApp users.

Currently, these options are set to 'everyone' by default, that allows any WhatsApp user to find out exactly when you used WhatsApp for the last time, also reveals your image and Status message. Most of the times we don't want it to be shown to anyone or to non-contact users.

How to hide WhatsApp 'last seen at' time and Profile Picture?
WhatsApp now allows you to Modify your Privacy settings in three ways:

1. Show to 'Everyone'
2. Show to 'My Contacts'
3. Show to 'Nobody'

To Apply, Open your WhatsApp Settings -> Account -> Privacy and here you can set your Privacy settings as you wish.

So, if you set all the options to 'My Contacts', then only your phone contacts can see your 'last seen  at' time, profile picture and Status, and no one else would have these visibility available.

The WhatsApp's Founder said in a statement:

"There would have been no partnership between our two companies (Facebook and Whatsapp) if we had to compromise on the core principles that will always define our company, our vision and our product."

I wish, the company keeps doing great work for the users' privacy and Security.

How to Get the latest version before official release?

It is not known that the same has been released for other platforms or not, at the time of writing the article. The Latest version update has not yet rolled out via Google Play Store, but users can manually download and install it from WhatsApp's Official website.

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The $6.8 Billion Man: Poverty to Rich

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The $6.8 Billion Man: WhatsApp CEO's Path from Poverty to Riches

Tech luminaries are often drawn from the ranks of the already affluent. Mark Zuckerberg was the son of an upper-middle-class dentist. Bill Gates was technically a millionaire before he even started Microsoft in 1975. Larry Page's parents were both professors; Sergey Brin's father was a professor and his mother was a NASA researcher.

Yet occasionally, actual rags to riches stories emerge. Biz Stone, a Twitter co-founder, was raised on food stamps and received bowl haircuts from his mother to save money. Christian Gheorghe, now the CEO of Tidemark, came to the U.S. from Romania without speaking a word of English and initially found work as a limo driver.

But Jan Koum's story may be the most dramatic yet. Until Facebook's $16 billion acquisition on Wednesday, little was known about the WhatsApp CEO. The sudden intense interest prompted Forbes and Wired to rush out profiles of Koum that shed new light on his tale of ascendance.

Growing Up in the Ukraine

As Forbes recounts, Koum was raised in a small village outside of Kiev, Ukraine, in a house with no hot water. His parents also rarely used their phones, out of fear that the government was listening in. That suspicion of government power and the corresponding appreciation for privacy apparently runs deep in Koum's veins: Throughout WhatsApp's history, he has been protective of users' privacy and opposed integrating advertising into the app.

Though Koum said to Forbes he still pines for the rural life, he told Wired that life was rough: "It was so run-down that our school didn't even have an inside bathroom," he said. "Imagine the Ukrainian winter, -20°C, where little kids have to stroll across the parking lot to use the bathroom. Society was extremely closed off: you can read 1984, but living there was experiencing it."

Prompted by the unstable political environment — students were regularly questioned for mocking politicians in class — and increasing anti-Semitism in the Ukraine, Koum and his mother moved to Mountain View, Calif., when he was 16. Short on cash, the two stayed in a modest two-bedroom apartment on government assistance. Koum's father, who died in 1997, never made it to Mountain View. Koum's mother worked as a babysitter to make ends meet while he swept the floor of a grocery store. Later, when his mother was diagnosed with cancer, they lived off her disability payments. (Koum's mother died in 2000.)

An indifferent student Koum, who didn't have a computer until age 19, taught himself computer networking from a manual he bought at a used bookstore and later returned. Koum attended San Jose State University and worked part-time as a security tester for accounting firm Ernst & Young. Part of the work involved inspecting Yahoo's advertising system, a task that prompted Koum to cross paths with Brian Acton, who was employee No. 44 at Yahoo.

Acton, a computer science graduate from Stanford University, grew up playing golf in Florida. At one point, Acton's father attempted a career as a professional golfer. His mother founded an air freight business

Life After Yahoo

Koum spent nine years at Yahoo, a tenure that appears to be marked by increasing alienation from his work. “Dealing with ads is depressing,” he told Forbes. On Oct. 31, 2007, with $400,000 in the bank, Koum took some time off to decompress and travel around South America and play ultimate frisbee with Acton, who had also left the same day.

For the next year or so, it seems Koum didn't do much. Then in 2009, he bought an iPhone and, as legend has it, developed the idea for WhatsApp after growing frustrated with his gym's no-cellphone-calls policy. Another impetus was Skype: In the summer of 2008, Koum grew frustrated with that service after he forgot his password several times. He was determined to create an app that worked seamlessly on one's iPhone by using a phone number for identification.

By the fall, WhatsApp was still going nowhere, but Koum persuaded Acton to join him. At the time, both had been turned down for jobs at Facebook. Acton was also rebuffed by Twitter.

Around that time, the founders got a small group of former Yahoo employees to pool $250,000 in seed money. Early days were the stuff of startup legend. The company leased space in the same building as Evernote, which later took over the whole space and kicked them out. The office furniture was cheap stuff from IKEA and employees wore blankets when it got cold.

In early 2010, WhatsApp was bringing in about $5,000 a month. Things steadily improved until the company's breakthrough year, 2011, when WhatsApp hit the top 20 in Apple's App Store.

Now, thanks to a huge deal with Facebook, Koum and Acton are richer than their wildest dreams. (Forbes estimates Koum's wealth at $6.8 billion.) Yet Koum hasn't forgotten his roots. On Wednesday, when he signed the deal with Facebook, he chose a very meaningful location for the ceremonial act: the former North County Social Services building where Koum once stood in line for food stamps. To make the moment even more significant, while Koum was signing the documents, violence was erupting in his home country as protesters clashed in Kiev with President Viktor Yanukovych over the direction of the country.

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