It is very important to know whether it is safe to discuss secret information in a conversation. The corresponding level of secrecy is shown to you on each device by banners in the user profiles and conversations.
Overview of the secrecy levels in conversations:
| All participants belong to a classified backend | At least 1 participant belongs to an unclassified backend |
| Security level: VS-NfD | Security level: Unclassified |
If you are part of a classified backend and are in a conversation with other users who are also part of a classified backend, you will see the Security level: VS-NfD banner in the conversation:
You will also see this banner in the user profiles of the participants:
If you are part of a classified backend and are in a conversation with other users who are not part of a classified backend, you will see the banner Security level: Unclassified in conversation:
In this case, you will also see the banner in the user profiles of the participants:
People who do not belong to a classified backend and are in a conversation with users from a classified backend will not see any indication of the classification level.