A new end-to-end encrypted messaging app that doesn’t require a phone number

The encrypted, privacy-friendly messaging apps ecosystem has a relatively new member: Speek (stylized as Speek!).

Joining the likes of Signal and Telegram in this market, as well as WhatsApp and similar offerings, Speek seeks to differentiate itself with even stronger user protection, in the sense of better security, privacy, and protection from censorship.

The app's makers promise that it is "100% anonymous, decentralized and censorship-resistant" - and it is open source. The code is available on GitHub.

The way Speek achieves these decentralization, privacy, and "censorship-resistance" goals is by harnessing several types of technology, such as full-end-to-end encryption, a serverless peer-to-peer protocol that removes the need for a central server, thus increasing both security and likelihood of censorship through service shutdowns, considering that there is no single point of failure for either malicious hackers, or censors to easily exploit.

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