Immediately after the app is launched messages Google Allo και τα συνοδευτικό Assistant bot, ειδικοί σε θέματα ασφάλειας δήλωσαν ότι η Google δεν τήρησε τις υποσχέσεις για καλύτερη προστασία των χρηστών της, που έδωσε στο συνέδριο I/O κατά την πρώτη παρουσίαση της εφαρμογής. Ο Edward Snowden από χθες συνεχίζει να δημοσιεύει στο Twitter για την εφαρμογή Allo, αφού κατέληξε στο συμπέρασμα ότι δεν ήταν τίποτα περισσότερο από ένα honeypot για τις προσπάθειες επιτήρησης των ΗΠΑ.
On the other hand, the company appears to be trying to resist negative reviews with an immediate response to publications. We were really impressed yesterday by sending emails from her partners Google trying to justify the company. However, the content of the e-mail does not seem to answer those that really concern the world.
The controversy is of course the promise given by the company at the Google I / O programmer's congress in May. There, when Google introduced the new application from the Shoreline Amphitheater, the promising Allo app. The company said everything will be encrypted and secure for users. What everyone understands is that Allo will use an end-to-end encryption and an incognito feature.
In the comments made after the representatives of Google we learned that the data that will be trafficked by the Allo application will be stored, "transiently" on the company's servers. This means that Google will not keep them archives you in a place where they could be made available to the authorities and that they will be registered completely anonymously if you enable Incognito Mode. Besides, encryption means that all conversations will not be readable by Google.
Thinking about So? Last year, our secret court has approved 100% of requests for surveillance. They would cover Allo. https://t.co/oYtc3Pu8tx
- Edward Snowden (@Snowden) September 21, 2016
Months later, Google backed off that she chose to store all non-incognito messages by default. For those who did not understand this is a 180 turn from the original plan of the company, which has never officially announced the change.
In fact, the online community discovered it after the Allo application was released publicly.
As things stand, Allo is currently at the same level as most chat applications that use HTTPS to make sure the data is secure.
Simply put, data is mostly safe from hackers, but also readily available to Google data centers in a readable format.
By default, it is less safe than @WhatsApp, which makes it dangerous for non-experts. https://t.co/v1xy8VffC4
- Edward Snowden (@Snowden) September 21, 2016
As Snowden said, it is basically a honeypot for government agencies. The information is stored in an identifiable way and just waiting for a subpoena that will require access to them. Of course, the company says you can erase your data whenever you want, but the company's default settings store them forever.
So we can say that the Allo app offers security but with conditions. You should have incognito mode enabled and constantly delete your data from them servers of Google.
The Allo app comes to compete with big players in today's internet, and if it wants to prevail, it has to make the difference very distinct.
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