We recently had the opportunity to test Threema, an alternative messaging application, paid for, but which promises absolute confidentiality at the single price of $6.99. We’ll try its iOS app and tell you if it’s really worth it.
In theory, although we have since found that this is not the case, Trheema does not need any personal or additional data to function. However, the reality is that it asks for one permission or another and asks to access your contacts. Unfortunately, we had to carry out our tests with the editors of Actualidad iPhone themselves, since he didn’t have a single contact registered with Threema, or at least who had authorized him access.
Without problem, we can work under a pseudonym, or create a unique user code. The reality is that if we want, conversations can be absolutely private and end-to-end encrypted.
In theory, it has 11 million users, and they promise to comply with the EU General Data Protection Regulation, despite its more than strict confidentiality policy.
We tested the standard version, although there is a version designed for businesses, used by companies such as Mercedes-Benz or SIX Group. Threema has all the functions inherent in other messaging applications like WhatsApp we can send audio, location, photographs, files and even create surveys (in-app polls).
Threema prevents screenshots, offers an incognito keyboard and in theory according to its creators: ” NOT“or it would be possible for a hypothetical criminal to decrypt a user’s previous messages, even if they managed to obtain their current private key.”
Thanks to consistent end-to-end encryption, no one other than the recipient can read the transmitted messages, not even Threema as the service operator. Threema is 100% Swiss made, hosts its own servers in Switzerland, and unlike American services (which are subject to the CLOUD Act for example), is fully GDPR compliant.
