Published On: September 8, 2018

Photo by Markus Spiske on Unsplash Since the time Edward Snowden leaked classified information, the focus has been on how governments across the world use surveillance to keep tap on digital activities. Lately, I have been reading about it and have come to the conclusion that there is no way around it. However, precautions can be taken if one is worried about his/her digital privacy. Encryption in software/hardware largely boils down to the developers and if they wish then they can strongly encrypt the communication/data. For example, WhatsApp has partnered with Open Whisper Systems to provide end-to-end encryption. The reason to trust this partnership is because Signal Protocol, the technology which WhatsApp uses to encrypt messages, is open. Thus allowing anyone to go through the code to understand what exactly has been implemented and whether that matches up […]