- Feb 6, 2017
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All you need to know about Confide, the messaging App that President Trump’s staff uses
- Thread starter Wingman
- Start date
Contact permission can be denied on Android Marshmallow, iOS and Windows 10 Mobile (and later versions).
Would Confide work if you deny that contact info?
Quote from Confide Privacy Policy
Contact Information
When you sign up to become a user of the Service, you will be required to provide us with personal information about yourself, which may include your name, e-mail address and phone number (collectively, “Contact Information”). We do not collect any Contact Information from you when you use the Service or the Website unless you provide us with the Contact Information voluntarily. The Contact Information is used to provide the requested Service, and occasionally to contact users of our Service to notify them of our current and future products and features.
Haven't tried, but usually an app requesting Contacts permission may use or store that information to invite others to their service.
Hmm does anyone know why don't they use Signal? Signal seems to be more secure to me and has disappearing message as well.
- Feb 6, 2017
- 154
Wickr does that by using cryptographic representation of your details so no contact information ate stored in clear text AFAIK
It's explained in the Article.
I was going to ask the same
"The reason staffers are choosing Confide over other secure messaging apps, like Telegram and Signal, is that Confide deletes chats as soon as they are read. In other words, by default the app deletes messages after they are read. “We immediately delete them from our servers and wipe them from the device,” says Jon Brod, Confide’s co-founder and the company’s president.
The company deletes all messages from its servers and wipes them from people’s devices after they are read, according to Confide. However, other secure messengers, like Signal, do not wipe read messages, which mean that they could be interrupted if someone gains access to a smartphone where the messages have not been clearly deleted.
However, there are some security researchers who are doubtful about Confide’s cryptography bonafides, typically because the app is not open-source like Signal and may use old protocols."
- Jul 28, 2014
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Whickr seems to be a better choice seeing that they have a more professional messaging app and they are able to delete read messages on sight too. The only thing confide has is the swipe to read word by word which it seems to be the only messager to do that, making it harder to take a screenshot of the entire message. The downside to that is it may have a cool animation of the message breaking to pieces after being read but how well does confide delete the messages, does the app write over the deleted space to ensure no one can restore the messages?
