Elon Musk said his social media company X is preparing to release a standalone encrypted messaging app, X Chat, to compete with WhatsApp and Telegram.

Every day, over 5 billion people exchange more than 100 billion messages across WhatsApp, Telegram, iMessage, and Signal.

Recognizing this need, major online messaging services use a technique called end-to-end encryption, to secure and protect users' conversations.

Elon Musk’s upcoming X Chat app will rival WhatsApp with peer-to-peer encryption and won’t include “hooks” for advertising.

WhatsApp will now encrypt your chat backups with passkey. Instead of juggling passwords or copying a 64-digit key, you can ...

WhatsApp is introducing a passwordless way to instantly secure your chat backups. The messaging platform is launching passkey ...

If you back up both your data and your encryption key, your files should remain safely accessible to you (and only you). Open ...

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