Privacy-focused messaging app Signal has been flying high in the Dutch app stores this past month, often sitting at the top as the most downloaded free app on iOS and ...

If you hadn’t heard of Signal before Monday, chances are you have now. The secure messaging app, available for iPhones and Android devices, has long been popular with journalists because of its robust ...

A popular messaging app called Signal was recently the preferred communications platform for top officials in the Trump administration to discuss secret war plans. But the use of the app, widely ...

The Pentagon’s latest report makes one thing clear: Signal protects conversations, but it was never designed to safeguard U.S. war plans — and using it that way carried real risk for American forces.

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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. By Kate Conger Reporting from San ...

With news this week of the messaging app being used to discuss war plans, we get you up to speed on what Signal should be used for—and what it shouldn’t. MIT Technology Review Explains: Let our ...