全球通訊軟件保密排名出爐 騰訊QQ微信墊底
The world's most popular messaging apps are failing to adequately protect users' security and privacy, according to Amnesty International.
據國際特赦組織表示，世界上最受歡迎的即時通訊軟件正面臨無法充分保護用戶隱私和安全的境地。Amnesty looked at 11 of the most popular messaging apps and found big variations in security. Facebook Messenger and WhatsApp came out on top, with scores of 73 out of 100.
國際特赦組織觀察了11個最受歡迎的即時通訊軟件，發現了在安全問題上的巨大差別。臉書手機即時通和WhatsApp位於前列，在滿分100分中得到了73分。"For example in WhatsApp, the application uses very strong encryption," said Amnesty's Sherif Elsayed-Ali led the research, who led the research. "It does a very good job of telling people what kind of encryption it uses and how it protects people's information."
這項研究的負責人、國際特赦組織的謝里夫·艾爾賽義德-阿里表示："比如說，在WhatsApp這個應用軟件裏使用了很強的加密法。在告知人們他們使用了何種加密法以及如何保護人們的信息安全方面，這個應用軟件做得不錯。"
Conversely, Skype — which is owned by software giant Microsoft — and Snapchat performed poorly.
相反，圖片分享軟件Snapchat以及軟件巨頭微軟旗下的網絡電話Skype表現得並不好。"They do not use end-to-end encryption, which is essentially a kind of encryption that means that only the sender and the receiver are able to read the messages," Elsayed-Ali said.
艾爾賽義德-阿里說：“他們沒有使用點對點的加密法，這種算法基本上只允許信息的發送者和接收者讀到信息。”Snapchat disputes Amnesty's conclusions, and says privacy and security are "foundation values."
不過Snapchat對國際特赦組織的這一結論提出了質疑，並稱隱私和安全問題是他們“賴以建立的基礎”。Microsoft told VOA in a statement: "Skype uses encryption and a range of other technical security measures, and we protect people's privacy through legal challenges, advocacy, and strong policies to notify customers when we receive government requests for their data."
而微軟則在一份聲明中向“美國之聲”透露：“Skype使用了加密法以及一系列技術安全措施，當政府要求我們用戶的信息時，我們也通過法律質詢、律師工作以及強硬政策來告知用戶。”At the bottom of Amnesty's rankings was the Chinese firm Tencent, which owns the messaging apps WeChat and QQ. It scored zero out of 100.
在國際特赦的排名中，墊底的是中國網絡公司騰訊。微信和QQ都是騰訊旗下的即時通訊軟件。它們的得分是0分。
