While they can be great fun, the bad news is that Skype, in particular, isn’t that secure. If you want true end-to-end encryption for voice, video and text-based chats (as well as secure file sharing), then you’ll need to look into using an alternative solution.
The most secure we have found is Retroshare (www.retroshare.net). The only catch is that you’ll have to convince all your contacts to use it too – if this is a deal breaker, take a look at Jitsi (https://jitsi.org/), which supports a number of different messaging platforms.
You can install Retroshare (choose the QT5 version when at the download page) to your PC’s main storage drive or run it as a portable application, then set up your account and get each contact to do the same.…
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APC (Digital) - 1 Issue, March 2019