{"id":31074,"date":"2017-04-10T10:08:58","date_gmt":"2017-04-10T14:08:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.opensource.im\/?p=31074"},"modified":"2017-04-10T10:08:58","modified_gmt":"2017-04-10T14:08:58","slug":"edward-snowden-wont-say-hello-to-allo-cnet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/edward-snowden\/edward-snowden-wont-say-hello-to-allo-cnet.php","title":{"rendered":"Edward Snowden won&#8217;t say hello to Allo &#8211; CNET"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>James    Martin\/CNET    <\/p>\n<p>      Edward Snowden has joined a growing group of privacy      experts criticizing Google for not integrating end-to-end      encryption as a default feature in its new Allo      messaging app. In a tweet the NSA whistleblower      called Allo \"dangerous\" and warned his followers against      using it for now.    <\/p>\n<p>      Allo has an incognito mode that promises end-to-end      encryption through the popular Signal messaging protocol, but      it has to be manually switched on for specific conversations.      And to use Allo's Smart Reply feature, which allows the app      to read your messages and suggest possible replies, you'll      have to disable incognito mode completely.    <\/p>\n<p>      Allo, which Google announced at the I\/O developer conference this week, is      Google's answer to messaging apps such as WhatsApp and comes      with added personal-assistant features. WhatsApp also uses      Signal for encryption, but Signal is baked into the app for      all conversations from the start.    <\/p>\n<p>      Google didn't immediately respond to a request for comment.    <\/p>\n<p><!-- Auto Generated --><\/p>\n<p>The rest is here:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cnet.com\/news\/edward-snowden-wont-say-hello-to-allo\/\" title=\"Edward Snowden won't say hello to Allo - CNET\">Edward Snowden won't say hello to Allo - CNET<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> James Martin\/CNET Edward Snowden has joined a growing group of privacy experts criticizing Google for not integrating end-to-end encryption as a default feature in its new Allo messaging app. In a tweet the NSA whistleblower called Allo \"dangerous\" and warned his followers against using it for now. Allo has an incognito mode that promises end-to-end encryption through the popular Signal messaging protocol, but it has to be manually switched on for specific conversations. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-edward-snowden"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31074"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31074\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}