It seems like no conversation is safe from the prying eyes of Facebook. With WhatsApp becoming less and less secure, the shift away from the popular messaging app seems inevitable. You don’t have to wonder which app is best for your private conversations. Elon Musk tweeted on January 7: “Use Signal.” While the Singal app has been around for years, the Tesla CEO’s tweet sparked a surge in the app’s user base.
Before you download and start using the app, we would like to share with you our thoughts on the app and its privacy claims.
The history of the messaging app Signal is closely intertwined with that of WhatsApp.
Signal was developed by the Signal Foundation, a 501c3 nonprofit organization. Signal Foundation was founded by Moxie Marlinspike and WhatsApp co-founder Brian Acton. Acton left WhatsApp after speaking out against Facebook’s monetization of the app in 2017. In 2018, he and Marlinspike co-founded the foundation responsible for Signal Messenger.
