Are conversations from Google Hangouts safe? During one AMA at Reddit, The Christopher Soghoian, a technologist at the American Civil Liberties Union and an expert on surveillance technology, asked David Lieber, Google's director of information security, why the company isn't saying more about the fact that it allows government authorities to intercept its users' communications.
Although Google has never claimed that the service uses end-to-end encryption, it has stated that the information you share in Hangouts "Encrypted, to be safe," whatever that means.
Salgado, on the other hand, happened to mention that “comments are encrypted in transit,” which, when explained to non-techies conditions by user reddit_poly, means that once the conversations reach Google, the company can pretty much do whatever it likes with them, including handing them over to the authorities.
After the involuntary confirmation, the by clicking here Motherboard contacted a cface της Google ο οποίος υποστήριξε αυτά που δήλωσε ο Salgado, ότι δηλαδή το σύστημα ανταλλαγής μηνυμάτων της εταιρείας δεν χρησιμοποιεί κρυπτογράφηση end-to-end.
Not that this confirmation was necessary, as EFF had published a chart as part of their security campaign and Hangouts system. EFF says the Hangouts system is as safe as Facebook chat, which means that only two of the seven checkpoints proposed by the organization have passed.
In addition, in a transparency report that posted on their official website, Google revealed that they had cooperated with US authorities in 2013 by giving them permission to intercept data for legal reasons.
