“If we consider the most popular messengers in Russia, then Viber and Telegram reach a decent level in terms of security and convenience,” he said in an interview with the Prime agency.
Slobodchikov said that Viber, unlike WhatsApp and Telegram, uses an end-to-end encryption system, where adding a contact is not accompanied by uploading data to servers.
Earlier, security expert Olga Bochkova, in an interview with Izvestia, told how to figure out telephone scammers.