Viber offers users the ability to hide any chat by setting a PIN code for it in the Viber settings. Now let’s look into one more interesting Viber feature that is really unique. We will show you what artifacts can be retrieved in the second part of our post. If a message was deleted for everyone in Viber only partial recovery is obtainable. Unfortunately, once a message is self-destructed it cannot be recovered by forensic software, even if a physical extraction is done.Īlmost every Messenger used today offers the ability to delete a chat for everyone within the sent messages. Secret chats offer self-destruct messages and also screenshot notifications. This method of communication allows users to chat in an encrypted channel that will not be synchronized with the cloud service or with Viber Desktop. However, in comparison with WhatsApp, Viber offers secret chats. Public chats on Viber are not encrypted at all.
Additionally, they state no data is stored on the Viber server and that messages are only temporarily stored when they cannot be delivered to the mobile device. Viber’s official website states the app offers end-to-end encryption and the encryption keys only exist on user’s devices. Viber also has a 73 percent penetration in Central and Eastern Europe and 76 percent in Russia 59 percent in Southeast Asia 44 percent in the Middle East/North Africa and 45 percent in Australia/New Zealand.Ĭurrently there have not been too many notable criminal cases connected with this messenger app, but, if we look into its features, we will realize that this messenger could be ripe for nefarious use. India was the largest market for Viber as of December 2014 with 33 million registered users. Viber Messenger appeared close to the time of the WhatsApp initial release but at the time did not gain the popularity of WhatsApp.
According to Statista, there were over 1.1 billion registered users as of March 2019. Initially the messenger was developed in 2010 by the Israel-based Viber Media, which was then bought by Rakuten in 2014. The software app is provided as freeware for Android, Apple iOS, Microsoft Windows, macOS and Linux platforms. Viber is a cross-platform voice over IP and instant messaging software operated by Rakuten. Facebook 0 Tweet 0 LinkedIn 0 About Viber
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