Groups are able to have up to 250 participants at once. In the chat room details there are some notification options, sections which show all pictures, files and links from the chat grouped together, and a list of all room participants. You can also use audio and video chat and on desktop versions do screen sharing. Each contact has a key fingerprint that you can compare in person or using another communication channel to verify the key you see matches the key on their device.īBM is a mature product, so the chat session does have lots of useful features including quoting, editing and retracting your sent messages, deleting messages (on your device only), search, screenshot alerts, mentioning participants, and delivery and read receipts for every person in the chat. There is a "Feeds" section in BBMe which will alert you when any of your contact's keys change. This is a nice feature to have to be able to cleanup old conversations or easily keep the amount of data retained on devices very low. If you do this then create a new chat with your recipients then you are essentially forcing a complete key change for a conversation and deleting all history. There is also an option to retract an entire chat. This remaining data can be deleted as well just like any other message but this is an additional step that must be done on each device. There will still be a message remaining that just says "Message retracted" on the recipient's devices so there will be some meta data remaining that shows a message was sent. Any message you send can be retracted and the message contents will be deleted from all recipient's devices if possible.
One feature I do really like is "Retractable" messages. To me this feature isn't very useful except in rare circumstances so I can't set ephemeral messages as a listed feature of BBMe. With such a short timeout and no way to set this timeout as a permanent or always on feature the timeout is really only practical for the most sensitive messages. Also this feature is reset upon every new message to be disabled, so it is not a feature that can be easily used to ensure every message will expire after it is read. Therefore it is possible that a message is never read and it will never expire. However the timeout options are very short- only up to 60 seconds at most and the timeout period only begins once a message has been read. These timed messages set a timer for the message to expire once they have been read by the recipient. Thank you! All other data is also saved encrypted on the device in a BBMe exclusive database.īBMe does have "Timed messages" however these cannot really be considered "ephemeral" messages.
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Then once all setup on an iPhone you are able to install the app on Android and sign in with your BlackBerry Messenger PIN without needing to verify a payment method in the Play Store.ĭata leakage (especially photos) prevented! BBMe gives you an option on whether it saves photos to your phone's photo gallery, or keeps them encrypted only in the BBMe database! I love that BBMe give me a choice!! I can turn this feature off, and be sure any photos in BBMe stay only in BBMe and are not leaked. My solution was to instead sign up on an iPhone with my Apple Store account. I ran into this problem because I don't use a personal Google account anymore. You need to have a Play Store account and a valid payment method setup in order to create a subscription. If you use an alternate Android OS such as LineageOS and are trying to stay away from Google, BBMe could present some trouble for you in signing up. This is a very reasonable price for such an app.
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The new publicly available accounts will be free for the first year, then the fee is US $2.49 every 6 months. I was very excited to try this app now that it is available without a corporate account. This is great news for adoption of secure messaging:
This app is now opening up it's enterprise application to everyone.
One of the giants and first to the secure messaging arena is BlackBerry Messenger. I updated BBMe to "highly recommended" because they recently removed Google tracking from the mobile apps. When messages are deleted on both sending and receiving devicesĪndroid app trackers (2): Glympse, MixPanel Your ID contains personal information: No Communication types: Text, group chat, audio and video chat, photos, audio clips, files, location, contacts, screen sharingĪndroid app requires Google Play Services: Yes
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