The latest Salt Typhoon attack

[dcontesti]

Canadian iPhone and Android users should stop testing each other, experts advise, as the FBI investigates cyberattacks in the U.S.

https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/canadian-iphone-and-android-users-should-stop-texting-each-other...

[ericgeater]

There are so many angles to this.  As this article mentions, first, there's phone-to-phone issues.  Then there's the carrier concerns, since all US carriers are dealing with foreign intrusions and attacks.  It really does seem like the only intact defense layers here are app encryption (WhatsApp, Signal, Threema) and/or personal VPN use.

Thoughts?

[Caute_cautim]

@ericgeater 

Ask yourselves who owns WhatsApp - Meta so they share information regardless - so definitely insecure.

Threema anyone read the EULA with respect to data sharing?   https://threema.ch/en/work/support/legal

Signal even though it now uses Quantum Cryptography algorithms have apparently changed their EULA, and the release of information.

Telegram definitely sells information and shares information - not secure - leaks like a sieve.

Plus if you have Google AI, Iphone AI or Microsoft CoPilot where is the data they collect and where does it go? 

https://www.kaspersky.com/resource-center/preemptive-safety/messaging-app-security

I would prefer to be in a "Faraday Cage".  

Not impressed over current applications at the present time.

Regards

Caute_Cautim