Signal Private Messenger

[socrates]

Bit of topic: Heard that 'Session Pvt Messenger' is also quite good sadly I guess no one's heard of it.

 

[Sushubh]

Iran blocks Signal messaging app after WhatsApp exodus

With Signal shut down, WhatsApp and Instagram remain the only two unblocked major social media platforms.

www-aljazeera-com.cdn.ampproject.org

 

[Sushubh]

🚨 The battle inside Signal

The fast-growing encrypted messaging app is developing features that would make it more vulnerable to abuse. Current and former employees are sounding the alarm

www.platformer.news

 

[Sushubh]

Embrace ephemerality with default disappearing messages

As the norms for how people connect have changed, much of the communication that once took place through the medium of coffee shops, bars, and parks now takes place through the medium of digital devices. One side effect of this shift from analog to digital is the conjoined shift from the ephemera...

signal.org

 

[socrates]

Signal: WhatsApp-rival Signal is back online after outage

WhatsApp rival app Signal is facing some technical glitches and is down for most users globally. Signal users in India were unable to send messages or make calls on the platform. The service appears to be completely down and there is no tentative timeline yet as to when Signal will restore normalcy.

www.gadgetsnow.com

 

[socrates]

Like Whatsapp, Signal just “jumped the shark” and stops caring so much about privacy

Signal changes their policy about being completely open with users and decides to start adding closed-source components to their centralized servers.

pocketnow.com

 

[socrates]

WhatsApp co-founder Brian Acton takes over as interim CEO of Signal: 5 reasons why this is significant

Acton co-founded WhatsApp in 2009 but walked out in 2017 following differences with Mark Zuckerberg over the use of customer data. A year later, Moxie Marlinspike and he started the non-profit Signal Foundation, which oversees the messaging app

www.moneycontrol.com

 

[SVK]

Signal alerts 1,900 messaging users to a security threat from Twilio hackers

Whoever hacked Twilio searched for specific Signal users.

www.theverge.com

Nobody is really using this app from my group. Should I just uninstall app, or delete the account and then uninstall?

 

[Sushubh]

Removing SMS support from Signal Android (soon)

For many years, the Signal app on Android has supported sending and receiving plaintext SMS and MMS messages in addition to Signal messages. SMS and MMS are standardized communication protocols that allow mobile devices to send and transmit messages, and most people picking up their phone to text...

signal.org

 

[Navjot Singh]

It’s a broad answer to a specific question. If a government in the world says, “In order to operate in our country, we want the keys to your encryption,” would you just walk?

Yes, we would walk. We will not hand over the keys to our encryption, we will not break the encryption. In fact, with the way we are built, we don’t have access to those keys.

Signal's response if India forces them to break encryption.

Why Signal won’t compromise on encryption, with president Meredith Whittaker

Signal recently killed SMS support as part of that mission.

www.theverge.com