Signal: making the right moves

Signal is making all the right moves, this time with some updates that will make the encrypted messaging service — trusted by millions — more user-friendly.

There is now the option to have customised chat wallpapers, which is also a feature on WhatsApp. Of course, Signal’s backbone is its privacy-centric features. Signal is supported by the non-profit Signal Foundation, set up in 2018 by WhatsApp founder Brian Acton and security researcher (and Signal Messenger CEO) Moxie Marlinspike, who created an encryption protocol that is also used by WhatsApp. Signal is also recommended by the Electronic Frontier Foundation and Edward Snowden.