The app, which was introduced in 2014 and has hundreds of millions of users, is widely viewed as the safest messaging tool because of its encryption technology. — AFP
SAN FRANCISCO: Signal, a popular messaging app, has come into the spotlight after reports that several senior Trump administration officials had used the tool to conduct war planning – inadvertently including a journalist in one message group and the wife, brother and personal lawyer of Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth in another.
The app, which was started in 2014 and has hundreds of millions of users, is popular among journalists, activists, privacy experts and politicians – anyone who wants to secure his or her communications with encryption.
