Correction to: Z Friedens und Konflforsch 2022 https://doi.org/10.1007/s42597-022-00088-2

The publication of this article unfortunately contained mistakes. There was an error in Table 8 at the heading “Briar” and the item “Does not automatically save received media to the gallery”. It should be yes instead of no. The corrected table is given below

Table 8 Properties of messaging tools that need to be scrutinized, with example apps. On the basis of the OSI security architecture (Verschuren et al. 1993) and the reviewed literature (amongst others, Oppliger 2014; ITGovernance 2021), a number of criteria for secure communication software were derived in order to evaluate numerous apps

The original article has been corrected.