{"id":11206,"date":"2015-05-13T09:32:04","date_gmt":"2015-05-13T13:32:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=11206"},"modified":"2015-05-13T09:44:39","modified_gmt":"2015-05-13T13:44:39","slug":"google-hangouts-dont-use-end-to-end-encryption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2015\/05\/13\/google-hangouts-dont-use-end-to-end-encryption\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Hangouts Don&rsquo;t Use End-to-End Encryption"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/motherboard.vice.com\/read\/google-confirms-cops-can-wiretap-your-hangouts\">Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai<\/a> (via <a href=\"http:\/\/pxlnv.com\/linklog\/google-confirms-that-hangouts-doesnt-use-end-to-end-encryption\/\">Nick Heer<\/a>):<\/p><blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/motherboard.vice.com\/read\/google-confirms-cops-can-wiretap-your-hangouts\"><p>Apple has<span><\/span> long maintained that conversations over iMessage and FaceTime use end-to-end encryption, meaning &ldquo;no one but the sender and receiver can see or read them,&rdquo; as the company <a href=\"https:\/\/www.apple.com\/apples-commitment-to-customer-privacy\/\">said<\/a> after the PRISM revelations. That claim has turned out to be <a href=\"https:\/\/www.apple.com\/apples-commitment-to-customer-privacy\/\">partly true<\/a>: normally, Apple can&rsquo;t read your iMessages, but they can if they really want to.<\/p><p>[&#8230;]<\/p><p>We asked Google to clarify, or elaborate, on Monday, and a spokesperson confirmed that Hangouts doesn&rsquo;t use end-to-end encryption. That makes it technically possible for Google to wiretap conversations at the request of law enforcement agents, even when you turn on the &ldquo;off the record&rdquo; feature, which actually only prevents the chat conversations from appearing in your history&mdash;it doesn&rsquo;t provide extra encryption or security.<\/p><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai (via Nick Heer):Apple has long maintained that conversations over iMessage and FaceTime use end-to-end encryption, meaning &ldquo;no one but the sender and receiver can see or read them,&rdquo; as the company said after the PRISM revelations. That claim has turned out to be partly true: normally, Apple can&rsquo;t read your iMessages, but they [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[558,51,1194,140,31,30,355,48,96],"class_list":["post-11206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-facetime","tag-google","tag-google-hangouts","tag-imessage","tag-ios","tag-mac","tag-privacy","tag-security","tag-web"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11206"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11207,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11206\/revisions\/11207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}