By Dan Grech

Now that Facebook has gotten it’s mitts on Whatsapp, based on the revelations of the PRISM surveillance program last year you may extend your trust issues with the social network giant to the companies they acquire.

Here are three alternative messaging apps that promote their security as a their biggest selling point:

Telegram

A reported 4.5 million new users flocked to Telegram after the recent outage Whatsapp suffered, just hours after its acquisition by Facebook. Telegram has an encrypted service and offers a self destruct feature. In December 2013 Telegram backer, Pavel Durov, offered a reward of $200,000 in Bitcoins for anyone Read full story ›

Source: The Drum