Let’s say I have a phone and I send messages to friends, one through encrypted messaging, and one through un-(non?)encrypted messaging (do these even exist anymore?)
What makes the former more secure? How does one access the latter?
If someone has your phone password they are of equal security of course, but if they don’t then what protections does the encrypted service offer that the unencrypted one doesn’t?
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With encrypted messaging, you’re protected from someone grabbing the messages as they’re being sent between you and your friend. If someone were monitoring the data that was being sent through a network, they could see the contents of messages you are sending to your friend(your phone and computer encrypt nearly all data that is sent over a network, so this doesn’t happen much any more). If your messages are sitting on the chat apps server and they aren’t encrypted, someone could read them there as well. This tends to be the reason why people would prefer encrypted messaging. In this case, you would want your messages encrypted end to end, so that it’s encrypted with a key that only your friend has.
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