The National Security Council later confirmed the authenticity of the messages, sparking widespread concerns about the use of encrypted apps for classified discussions. Why Signal app is at the centre ...

The issue is its use. As an E2EE app, Signal’s bona fides surpass Messenger and WhatsApp. For starters, Signal Messenger LLC—the company that develops Signal—created the encryption protocol ...

The encrypted messaging app Signal is receiving ... In a lengthy post to X, Signal addressed this issue by pushing back on the Pentagon’s use of the term “vulnerability.” ...

Trump took aim at the encrypted service without specifying why he thought it had issues. “I don’t know that Signal works. I think Signal could be defective, to be honest with you,” Trump ...

The app has robust privacy features and minimal data collection, as well as default end-to-end encryption of all messages and ...

But the Atlantic’s editor in chief, Jeffrey Goldberg, revealed on Monday that he had been added to a group chat with President Donald Trump’s Cabinet members about military strikes on Yemen – raising ...

The team led by U.S. President Donald Trump's national security adviser, Mike Waltz, set up at least 20 group chats on the commercial Signal app to coordinate official work on issues involving China, ...

Just as it did with Sweden, Signal is refusing to stay in a territory that undermines its encryption strategy, arguing that a backdoor in France would undermine protections for users worldwide.

WhatsApp uses Signal's encryption protocol, so your chats and calls are just as end-to-end encrypted as those on Signal. But the main distinction between Signal and WhatsApp is that the latter ...

Communications on Signal, including Signal Stories and your user profile, are end-to-end encrypted by default. That means the data is scrambled in transit and can only be seen by the sender and ...