Encrypted Chat App Threema Full of Hackable Bugs: Study
Image: Burdun Iliya (Shutterstock)An end-to-end encrypted chat app that collects almost no data and requires no personal information to sign up? Sounds like a dream come true for privacy enthusiasts. The only problem is that Threema, the Swiss privacy company behind the messenger in question, has been using an unreliable cryptographic protocol, whose bugs would have allowed a savvy hacker to access metadata related tousers’ supposedly safe and secret convos. Yikes indeed.Threema’s unfortunate security issues were…