According to Snowden, do not use the new Google chat application.
The agenda for the coming months Google may be quite responsible. As you may already know, the American company is organizing its conference I / O for developers. And if it so interested techo the world is because it is at this conference that Google unveils its upcoming features, most of which will be available this fall. For the Google I / O 2016 , new elements are numerous
Among the products revealed by Google on this occasion, there was a (umpteenth) messaging application called Hello . This is distinguished from competitors like WhatsApp Messenger or by the presence of Wizard, the new artificial intelligence from Google.
With Wizard, Allo can analyze the context of your conversation and suggest responses. And the most interesting (or worrying) with this clever messaging is that the more you use, the more it will know how you answer and pre-written responses will be relevant.
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"Avoid it for now"
But that's not all because Allo also offers an incognito mode that lets discuss more discreetly. Specifically, this mode allows you to exchange messages encrypted from end to end (an encryption method that is enabled by default on WhatsApp), to have privacy notifications and set an expiration date for the messages. Google also boasted that for this functionality, it has used the expertise of Open Whisper Systems, the organization that developed Signal (the preferred application of Edward Snowden), in terms of security.
However, hardly presented Allo is already criticized. What his detractors accuse Hello, is that the Incognito mode is not enabled by default. On Twitter, the pitcher Edward Snowden alerts simply advise not to use the new application: "The decision by Google to disable default encryption end to end on his new chat application Allo is dangerous and makes it unsafe . Avoid it for now. "