How to make sure texts, calls are encrypted after FBI security warning

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How to make sure texts, calls are encrypted after FBI security warning
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Kevin Collier is a reporter covering cybersecurity, privacy and technology policy for NBC News.

Federal officials warned Tuesday that a massive Chinese hacking operation against American telecommunications companies hasn’t yet been fully expelled and that the best way to hide communications from Beijing’s spies is to use encryption. Encryption is a technology that scrambles a message and requires a “key” to be able to see or hear it.

Both apps also allow users to make encrypted phone calls with other users through the internet. But even without apps like Signal and WhatsApp, many Americans frequently text with end-to-end encryption turned on, even if they don’t know it. If iMessage users text other iMessage users or Google Messages users text other Google Messages users, those chats are automatically encrypted with the Signal protocol.

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