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how secure is kik to use as far as privacy goes?
this article from last year states
>Kik*: Kik also gets an asterisk here. Messages are not end-to-end encrypted, so the company can theoretically read them. But Kik claims it deletes user messages from its servers as soon as they’re delivered to a user’s device. That means it wouldn’t be able to share your messages with authorities if requested, and the length of time during which it could read your messages is extremely short.
http://www.recode.net/2015/12/21/11621610/is-your-messaging-app-encrypted
yet i found another article where a kik rep said it is encrypted
>"Kik is kind of built in a way where the people that built the technology and the people that founded it—they wouldn’t want people to be able to read their messages so that’s one of the reasons why messages are encrypted and they aren’t stored on our servers."
so i'm kind of confused, can somebody that knows more about this clarify if kik messages are indeed encrypted end-to-end?
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It should be clear by now that the NSA is storing all this data on their servers anyway. It doesn't matter if Kik stores it or not, that's the wrong question to ask.
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>>55195147
well i'm asking if KIK does it
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>>55195236
From a privacy standpoint it doesn't matter. They probably don't, but I'm willing to be they collaborate with big brother to give them what they need.
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>>55195266
Wasn't there a law passed that required companies to hold data on their servers for a certain amount of time to allow government agencies to make requests to gather information? Or am I retarded...
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>>55195326
i doubt this was passed, what if companies don't have the infrastructure required to hold large amounts of data? for example google.
shit, most ISPs don't even hold your IP-address logs for more than 1 year
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