“Super secure” MAGA-themed messaging app leaks everyone’s phone number
“Super secure” MAGA-themed messaging app leaks everyone’s phone number 2025-12-10Eric Daigle #infosec Neither of us had prior experience developing mobile apps, but we thought, “Hey, we’re both smart. This shouldn’t be too difficult.” Freedom Chat CEO Tanner Haas Background# Once upon a time, in the distant memory that is 2023, a new instant messaging app called Converso was launched. Converso made some pretty impressive claims about its security: it claimed to implement state of the art end-to-end encryption, to collect no metadata, and to use a decentralized architecture that involved no servers at all. Unfortunately, security researcher crnković did some basic reverse engineering and traffic analysis and found all of these claims to be completely baseless,…
