Mobile internet messaging (WhatsApp) with end-to-end encryption
Mensajería móvil por internet (WhatsApp) y cifrado de extremo a extremo
- Date
- 2009 · confidence high
- Place
- WhatsApp, Mountain View, California, United States; the Signal Protocol (Open Whisper Systems, San Francisco)
- Credited to
- Jan Koum and Brian Acton (WhatsApp); Moxie Marlinspike and Trevor Perrin (Signal Protocol, 2013; in WhatsApp from 2016)
- People
- 👤 Brian Acton1972–👤 Jan Koum1976–👤 Moxie Marlinspike1980–👤 Trevor Perrin2000–
- Field
- Communication
What it is
Apps that replace SMS with free messages, calls and video over mobile data, encrypted end to end. They are the everyday communication medium for billions of people.
What it led to
- The collapse of carriers' SMS revenue
- Groups as a channel for misinformation and political organising
- The conflict between privacy and state surveillance (backdoors)
Built on
Made possible
- Telegram
- conversational commerce
- super-apps