A few days back, the Facebook group owned WhatsApp updated their secrecy management, assisting numerous users to look for alternative platforms. That research directed them to few possible competing messaging applications. Among them which tops is Signal, a California-based app, operated by a non-profitable organization.

Elon Musk’s, CEO of Tesla, tweets and encouraged users to turnabout to Signal which has given the security-focused application an additional lift.

WHAT IS THE SIGNAL APPLICATION?

Signal Messenger was established by Moxie Marlinspike and Brian Acton in the year 2018. Acton is also one of the founders of WhatsApp. He left the Facebook-owned corporation three years back after Facebook bought it for $19 billion.

Signal Foundation’s strategy is to provide their user an encrypted messaging facility. The application is open-source, and in fact, WhatsApp is currently using Signals end-to-end encryption criteria.

DIFFERENCE BETWEEN SIGNAL & WHATSAPP?

Messages conveyed within Signal are said to be encrypted, which means the application will not access private text or media, or stock them on their server.

While WhatsApp also presents end-to-end encryption for their messages, it can obtain additional hidden data and information like IP address, group items, and status. The organization also doesn't encrypt messages cached on the cloud. Although Telegram it's another competitive messaging application, is assumed to collect user's contact numbers, Ids and, details.

Though, if you are offline, Signal will save some messages on its server till messages are sent.

Signal also supports setting a delegated PIN to lock the app, which helps users preserve hidden profile data and information. Your number can also be utilized to recover profile, settings, contact details if a user lost his device or switching to a new one.

The added positive element is that Signal isn't controlled by a huge technology company, unlike WhatsApp.

HOW ABOUT USER PRIVACY?

The phone number of the user is the solitary data which is said to be stored by Signal, rather than WhatsApp.

In extension to encrypting messages, the Signal service offers to hide an added significant section of metadata - who is messaging to whom. Within the ‘sealed sender’ characteristic, the application protects the details of the sender and the receiver.

Signal also authorizes the user to transmit voice calls to its servers, without disclosing the user's identification from contacts. Users also hold the options to enable incognito keyboard mode and block the screenshots inside the app. Recently, the application also continued a characteristic to blur faces manually before sharing photos.

GET STARTED WITH SIGNAL!

You can download Signal from both Android as well as iOS devices. Users can also able to use the application on the desktop too. You can get started by registering your number and creating up the registration PIN lock for added security purposes.

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