{"id":466,"date":"2015-08-12T01:29:48","date_gmt":"2015-08-12T01:29:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dogoodsoft.com\/blog\/?p=466"},"modified":"2024-12-23T08:04:23","modified_gmt":"2024-12-23T08:04:23","slug":"pushbullet-adds-end-to-end-encryption-as-it-continues-shift-into-messaging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dogoodsoft.com\/blog\/pushbullet-adds-end-to-end-encryption-as-it-continues-shift-into-messaging-466\/","title":{"rendered":"Pushbullet adds end-to-end encryption as it continues shift into messaging"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dogoodsoft.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Snap11.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-467 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dogoodsoft.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Snap11.jpg\" alt=\"Pushbullet adds end-to-end encryption as it continues shift into messaging\" width=\"815\" height=\"405\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dogoodsoft.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Snap11.jpg 815w, https:\/\/www.dogoodsoft.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Snap11-300x149.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.dogoodsoft.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Snap11-2x1.jpg 2w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 815px) 100vw, 815px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Pushbullet, once a simple tool for sending files between your various devices, has announced that it now supports end-to-end encryption for additional user privacy, as it continues its march towards becoming a fully-fledged messenger.<\/p>\n<p>Announced in a blog post, the new encryption is applied across notifications that are mirrored between devices, any text captured by the universal copy-and-paste option and any SMS messages that are sent using the platform.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dogoodsoft.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Snap21.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-468 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dogoodsoft.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Snap21.jpg\" alt=\"Pushbullet adds end-to-end encryption as it continues shift into messaging\" width=\"638\" height=\"612\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dogoodsoft.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Snap21.jpg 638w, https:\/\/www.dogoodsoft.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Snap21-300x288.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.dogoodsoft.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Snap21-1x1.jpg 1w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 638px) 100vw, 638px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Once enabled (achieved by entering a password on each device), it means that data passed using Pushbullet isn\u2019t visible to the service itself or the company \u2013 only encrypted data is passed along.<\/p>\n<p>To enter a password for end-to-end encryption, you just need to go to the settings menu on each device. Don\u2019t forget your password though, there\u2019s no record of it anywhere.<\/p>\n<p>For now, the Pushbullet Android, Chrome and Windows desktop apps support the feature, but the company says that it\u2019s working to bring it to iOS and Mac as \u201csoon as possible.\u201d Opera, Safari and Firefox support will then be added later.<\/p>\n<p>While it\u2019s a relatively small (but nonetheless important) feature for users, it\u2019s essential for the future of the company if it\u2019s intent on ploughing ahead into the messaging space.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pushbullet, once a simple tool for sending files between your various devices, has announced that it now supports end-to-end encryption for additional user privacy, as it continues its march towards becoming a fully-fledged messenger. Announced in a blog post, the new encryption is applied across notifications that are mirrored between devices, any text captured by &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dogoodsoft.com\/blog\/pushbullet-adds-end-to-end-encryption-as-it-continues-shift-into-messaging-466\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Pushbullet adds end-to-end encryption as it continues shift into messaging<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[118,193,192],"class_list":["post-466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-end-to-end-encryption","tag-ios","tag-pushbullet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dogoodsoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dogoodsoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dogoodsoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dogoodsoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dogoodsoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=466"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.dogoodsoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":469,"href":"https:\/\/www.dogoodsoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466\/revisions\/469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dogoodsoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dogoodsoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dogoodsoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}