Even for Signal, engineering privacy is fraught with pitfalls
The Parallax
JULY 27, 2020
Signal has become the privacy-focused consumer’s go-to messaging app. But a recent change to its back-end systems, designed to make the app more accessible and competitive with other encrypted-messaging services, could be putting user data at risk. At the core of Signal’s appeal is a level of digital protection and commercial disinterest in its users’ communications rarely seen by messaging-service providers.
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