Until recent news involving the Signal app, it was a relatively unknown messaging app compared with WhatsApp to many ...

When compared to rivals like WhatsApp, Whittaker argued that competitors don’t measure up to Signal’s security. “Neither consumer nor business WhatsApp protects intimate metadata — like ...

WhatsApp uses the Signal Protocol (see above), meaning it offers a reliably secure form of protection for messages by default. One problem with WhatsApp is that, while the content of your messages ...

Signalgate shows a fundamental misunderstanding of encryption, so it's important to understand how these technologies ...

President Donald Trump's national security adviser, Mike Waltz, accidentally added The Atlantic’s editor-in-chief, Jeffrey ...

Signal and WhatsApp are both end-to-end encrypted messaging ... them — a detail that speaks volumes about their focus on user safety and why journalists are often contacted using it.