Signal, a popular messaging app, came to the headlines this week, in which several senior Trump administration officials used the equipment to operate the war plan after the report – inadvertently including a journalist in the message group.
The app, which was launched in 2014 and has hundreds of crores of users, is popular among journalists, activists, privacy experts and politicians – whoever wants to secure their communication with encryption.
But the use of the app by government officials resulted in an intelligence violation outside the safe government channels, which would usually be used for classified and highly sensitive war scheme. This incident has raised questions about the safety of the signal and why government officials were using it. (Federal officials are not generally not allowed to install signals on the equipment issued by their government.)
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What is the signal used for?
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Signal is an encrypted messaging application that is used to communicate safely. It encrys messages from the end-to-end, which means that a user is encrypted on their device and is not dec This method protects the message from intercept and reading any one, including internet service providers, hackers or signals, while it is in transit.
Users can also set a signal message to disappear after a certain length. Users who want their messages to disappear, can turn the feature in settings for each individual chat.
Who is the owner of the signal?
The signal is owned by an independent non -profit organization in the United States called Signal Foundation. It is funded by donations from its users and grants.
The Foundation was launched in 2018 with a donation of $ 50 million from Brian Acton, the co-founder of WhatsApp, another messaging platform, bought by Facebook in 2014. Mr. Acton left WhatsApp to start the signal foundation after controversies with Facebook, now known as Meta, about a plan to earn money from his messaging service.
Mr. Acton joined the Cryptographer Moxi Marlinspike, a cryptographer who designed the security system of the signal to create a signal foundation. The foundation is structured to prevent the signal from having an incentive to sell user data.
Mr. Marlinspike, who left the post from the board of the Foundation in 2022, has a lot of great reasons for being on the signal. “Now involves opportunities for the vice -president of the United States, which is to add you randomly to a group chat for the coordination of sensitive military operations. Don’t sleep on the occasion.”
Is the signal safe?
Yes. The signal is widely considered as the safest messaging app on the market, as due to its encryption technology and other measures designed to secure the data of users.
Its underlying encryption technology is an open source, which means that the code has been made public and allows technologists to investigate it and identify flaws. Technology is also used by licenses and other services, such as WhatsApp.
This encryption technique has been important when signal has been the goal of foreign hackers. Russia has tried to conduct a survey when Ukrainian is using signals, and in February, Google researchers said That Russian hackers tried to kidnap users’ signal accounts. While the second attack was effective, it worked by working users to add wicked equipment to their signal accounts, not by breaking the encryption of the signal.
In the event of safety violations, the signal is designed to maintain low user data as much as possible, so that minimum information is revealed. Unlike other messaging services, the company does not store users contacts or other identified data that may indicate how a person used service.
This does not mean that signal is an ideal service to convey war plans. If a user’s device is compromised, their signal messages can be read-and using the communication system approved by the government can unknowingly stop the authorities along with a journalist in the discussion.
Representatives of the signal did not immediately respond to the remarks request.
Is the signal safe for texting?
Yes, generally, although users should be careful for new contacts, such as they may be on another social stage.
And when people are included in their group chat, they want to take an additional moment to ensure that they have included the right contacts.
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