With words such as spying and interception of texts posed, the biggest question in the minds of people is how to protect yourself from this threat. Many experts currently recommend using encrypted applications, such as WhatsApp and X, instead of traditional SMS.
“Encryption is your friend, whether on text messaging or if you have the capacity to use encrypted voice communications, even if the opponent is able to intercept the data if it is encrypted, it will make it impossible, if not really difficult, for them to detect it. reported by the United States Today.
Forbes too reported That an FBI manager recommended by citizens uses a mobile phone that automatically receives timely updates from the operating system. In addition, the phone should have managed encryption and phishing-resistant Multi-Factory Authentication (MFA) For email, social media and collaboration tools.
“It is therefore somewhat ironic that one of the countermeasures recommended by the government to protect itself against the espionage of the typhoon salt is to use strongly encrypted services for telephone calls and text messages – encryption capacities that this has spent decades to try to undermine so that only” good “can use it,” wrote Forno.
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