WhatsApp uses Signal's encryption protocol, so your chats and calls are just as end-to-end encrypted as those on Signal. But ...

Jack Cushman gives readers a primer on Signal's privacy capabilities in light of the Atlantic's editor in chief being added to a group chat used by American leaders to plan military actions in Yemen.

When top White House defense and national security leaders discussed plans for an attack on targets in Yemen over the messaging app Signal, it raised many questions about operational security and ...

Encrypted messaging app Signal continues to see spiking downloads in the wake of the messaging scandal that saw The Atlantic’s editor-in-chief Jeffrey ...

In light of the controversy around US attack plans being shared on Signal, the security of messaging apps is firmly in the spotlight. A mere three days after US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth ...

Signal and WhatsApp are both end-to-end encrypted messaging apps, but they differ in ownership and data collection practices. WhatsApp, owned by Meta, collects metadata on users, while Signal ...

Signal and WhatsApp are both end-to-end encrypted messaging apps, but they differ in ownership and data collection practices. WhatsApp, owned by Meta, collects metadata on users, while Signal, a ...

Answer: Until recent news involving the Signal app, it was a relatively unknown messaging app compared with WhatsApp to many nontechnical users. This is illustrated by comparing the over 2 billion ...

And while those messaging apps work fine, some still seek out alternatives that lean hard into a promise of security and privacy—like Signal. The thing is, other apps like Messenger and WhatsApp ...

Photo: Mandel Ngan/Zuma Press, Andrew Leyden/AFP/Getty Images Meredith Whittaker spent her first few years running Signal preaching the encrypted-messaging app’s benefits for sensitive ...