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Understanding Tox Chat

Over the past several years, there has been an evolution in end-to-end encryption (the acronym E2EE for short) messaging services. “WhatsApp”, undoubtably the most popular and most utilized E2EE service in the world (estimated 2 billion users), was acquired by Meta (Facebook) over 7 years ago. Second to “WhatsApp”, the E2EE messaging platform “Telegram” has over 800 million users. It would be safe to deduce that privacy oriented communication has become a staple for the world today.

Keven Hendricks · Apr 18, 2022

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Dark Web Investigations and I2P

Before we had the popularity of Meta’s Facebook messenger and end-to-end encryption apps like Telegram, there was AOL Instant Messenger (AIM for short). AIM was brilliant, and from my high school to college years, it was the preferred method of staying in touch with my friends. With the success of AIM, there were competitors: Yahoo Messenger and MS Messenger, and while not comparative in the popularity of AIM (here in the United States at least), both services had their own features which set them apart.

Keven Hendricks · Mar 24, 2022

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Android Viber Forensics

Viber is a cross-platform VoIP and instant messaging application distributed across multiple mobile and PC platforms, including Android, iOS, Microsoft Windows, macOS, and Linux. There are over 1.1 billion Viber users worldwide and more than 820 million monthly active users.

Nov 22, 2021

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Android Screen Capturing

The latest version of Belkasoft X includes a new method for capturing data from Android devices: automatic screenshots for popular apps. The method is based on the ADB protocol and has the same requirements as for a backup: phone must be unlocked and developer mode enabled.

Belkasoft · Oct 15, 2021

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Signal App Decryption

Signal is widely considered to be one of the most secure messaging services. Even Edward Snowden called Signal his favorite messenger app.

Belkasoft · Sep 13, 2021