Messengers store a huge amount of personal data about users, said Pavel Myasoedov, partner and director of IT-Reserve. writes Prime. According to him, information about a person is stored on servers even after the complete removal of correspondence from smartphones.
By practicing digital hygiene and paying attention to security settings, you can significantly reduce the risk of leaking valuable information about a person into the hands of fraudsters. “The main problem is that some of the loopholes still remain in the hands of software developers,” added the head of the company.
He recalled that during correspondence, the system first transmits a message to the developer’s infrastructure. Only after that it goes to the interlocutor. “By deleting correspondence on our device, we do not delete it on the companies’ servers. Moreover, we lose access to it, ”the programmer explained.
In the case of end-to-end encryption, only the participants should have access to the correspondence, but there is always a risk of hacking. Special programs will help to communicate without intermediaries and exchange data. They work under the peer-to-peer protocol. As a rule, they need to be loaded in advance, after the fact it will not be possible to delete messages that have visited the developer’s server.
Earlier, Myasoedov called Telegram and Signal messengers the safest.
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