A new-ish messaging service that claims to put users' privacy first has changed its tune – and the end-to-end encryption claims on its website – as well as pulling its app from both the Apple and Google app stores after being called out online.
Converso – a comms app launched in September 2022 – billed itself as a "next-generation messaging app that keeps your conversations completely private." This, according to the developer's website, included "
proprietary state-of-the-art end-to-end encryption technology," no storage of messages on servers, and "
absolutelyno use of user data." It claimed it could stand up to the likes of Signal and WhatsApp in the security stakes.
A blogger who goes by Crnković and has an interest in encryption protocols heard about Converso from an ad on a podcast and decided to poke around to see if the software lived up to the hype.
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