The European Commission made an extremely important announcement regarding WhatsApp, iMessage, or Facebook Messenger, the authorities taking a lot of people by surprise with the decision they took. The European Commission announced to all its employees through the internal discussion forums that they must start using the Signal application for communications between them, with sensitive information regarding everything related to the proper functioning of the police stations, and not only that.
The European Commission he does not recommend WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, iMessage, or any other messaging platform outside of Signal because none of them would be as secure as the one he chose to use. The European Commission considers that the information encryption technology that Signal has implemented is innovative and very secure, so that communications cannot be intercepted, WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger are known to be insecure.
European Commission: Very IMPORTANT Announcement Regarding WhatsApp
The European Commission however, very interestingly, it puts iMessage in the same situation as WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger, and this could be related to another problem from Apple. Although iMessage conversations are encrypted, iDevice backups are stored unencrypted in iCloud, so hackers and intelligence agencies can access them from an iCloud backup, which the European Commission does not consider to be normal, and in the case of Signal this would not happen.
"The European Commission has told its staff to start using Signal, an end-to-end encrypted messaging app, to increase the security of its communications. The instruction appeared on internal messaging boards in early February, notifying employees that "Signal has been selected as a recommended app for public instant messaging."
The European Commission it no longer considers WhatsApp safe after Jeff Bezos' phone was hacked through this application, and since Facebook Messenger comes from the same company, it is clear why there is no trust. Signal is made totally differently, and has always been regarded as the most secure messaging application in the world, so the recommendation from the European Commission for its employees also comes as a result of all the recommendations of IT security experts.
The European Commission has very important information to protect, including through its employees, so it is normal to recommend them to use only the safest possible services to protect the data.
