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History
Viber was developed by Viber Media. Viber
Media was founded in Tel Aviv, Israel by a former chief
information officer in the Israeli military, Talmon Marco,[7] along with Igor
Magazinnik,
Sani Maroli and Ofer Smocha.Viber was initially launched for iPhone on December 2, 2010, in
direct competition with Skype. An Android version was released on
July 19, 2012. Viber for BlackBerry and Windows Phone devices was launched on
May 8, 2012.[10] On reaching 90 million
users on July 24, 2012, group messaging service and HD
Voice engine
were added to both Android and iPhone applications. Applications for Nokia's Series
40, Symbian and Samsung's Bada platform were also
announced on the same day.[11][12][13][14]
Viber with voice was officially released for
all Windows Phone 8 devices on April 2, 2013.
On July 24, 2013, Viber's support system was
defaced by the Syrian Electronic Army. According to Viber, no
sensitive user information was accessed.[16]
In August 2013, Viber for Linux was released as a public beta[17] and in August 2014 a final
version.[18]
On February 13, 2014, Rakuten announced they had acquired
Viber for $900 million.[19] The sale of Viber earned
the Shabtai family (Benny, his brother Gilad, and Gilad's son Ofer)
some $500 million from their 55.2% stake in the company.[20][21]
Security
On November 4, 2014, Viber scored 1 out of 7
points on the Electronic Frontier Foundation's "Secure Messaging
Scorecard". Viber received a point for encryption during transit but lost
points because communications were not encrypted with keys that the provider
didn't have access to (i.e. the communications were not end-to-end
encrypted),
users could not verify contacts' identities, past messages were not secure if
the encryption keys were stolen (i.e. the service did not provide forward
secrecy),
the code was not open to independent review (i.e. the code was not open-source), the security design was
not properly documented, and there had not been a recent independent security
audit.[22][23] On November 14, 2014, the
EFF changed Viber's score to 2 out of 7 after it had received an external
security audit from Ernst & Young's Advanced Security
Centre.[22]
On April 19, 2016, Viber Media added
end-to-end encryption to their service, but only for one-to-one and group
conversations in which all participants are using the latest Viber version for
Android, iOS, Desktop or Windows 10.[24][25] The company said that the encryption
protocol had
only been audited internally, and promised to commission external audits
"in the coming weeks".[26] In May 2016, Viber
published an overview of their encryption protocol, saying that it is a custom
implementation that "uses the same concepts" as the Signal
Protocol.[27]
Features
The actual functionality varies from platform
to platform. Viber includes text, picture and video messaging across all
platforms, with voice calling available only to iPhone, Android and Microsoft's Windows Phone although
HD voice is planned for Windows Phone 8.[28]
As of December 2013, Viber officially
launched Viber Out, a feature that provides users the option to call mobile and
landline numbers. Viber Out was originally released in November only to help Typhoon
Haiyan victims
in the Philippines connect with their loved ones.
Viber's desktop version uses TCP and UDP
ports 5242, 4244, 5243, 9785, and the standard HTTP/HTTPS ports 80 and 443.[29]
In November 2016, Viber launched Public
Accounts, to allow brands to engage in promotion and customer service on the
platform. The Huffington Post, Yandex and The
Weather Channel were
the first to use it.[6]The app allows its users to send a video
message in one-push but to use numerous in-chat bot
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