Signal Messenger - Open-source secure encrypted messaging and calling app

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Signal Messenger

Open-source secure encrypted messaging and calling app

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If you care about your privacy, and you should, you use only encrypted open-source messaging platforms.

Signal Messenger by Open Whisper Systems is exactly that.

Use anything by Open Whisper Systems.
Edward Snowden, Whistleblower and privacy advocate

The app, which is available freely for Android, iOS, and as a desktop module is 100% open-source and everybody can peer review the code in the Signal Github repos, thus guaranteeing optimal peer-reviewed security standards.

Features:

  • End-to-end encrypted messaging
  • High quality worldwide calls and video calls
  • Time limited messaging (disappearing messages)
  • Cross-platform
  • Open-source
  • Free

After reading the code, I literally discovered a line of drool running down my face. It’s really nice.
Matt Green, Cryptographer, Johns Hopkins University

Download Signal freely for Android, for iOS or for Desktop

Link

https://signal.org/?ref=steemhunt

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     6 years ago 

    Pros :

    • Free for use
    • Secures your message and calls
    • Simple and fast application
    • Supports desktop, iOS and Android

    Cons :
    None for me

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     6 years ago 

    Pros: free to use / easy to work with / design
    Cons: you have to give away some personal details

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     6 years ago 

    Who's awesome? You're awesome!
    You hunted a great product that has been approved by a Steemhunt moderator.
    Congrats, keep sharing your awesomeness tomorrow!

    Psst, come and say 'Hi!' on Discord

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     6 years ago 

    Pros:

    • Great app for those who want security and encryption of messages.
    • Free and an open-source software.
    • The features it offers are topnotch!

    Cons:

    • None for this helpful app.
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     6 years ago 

    This is great for encrypting messages with the use of Cryptography.

    Pros:

    • Secured Messages
    • Free to Use
    • Open source

    Cons:

    • Graphical User Interface is hard to understand for newbies. But personally for me. It is fine
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     6 years ago (edited)

    Pros:

    • Designed from the ground up to be nothing but a secure messaging platform.
    • It’s not oddly hacked onto an existing platform.
    • Fully open source.
    • Extremely familiar, intuitive interface.
    • Allows audio chat, with verification.

    Cons:

    • Not widely used or known.
    • Requires your phone number for contact discovery.
    • The user interface and some of the user experience design can have some, let’s say, interesting glitches. However, none of these problems affect security.
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     6 years ago 

    Pros:

    Open source
    Free to use
    Secure

    Cons:

    None that I can see

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     6 years ago 

    Pros: secure, design, free
    Cons: You have to give personal information

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     6 years ago 

    What personal information do you have to give? Your phone number is used for discovery and reachability.

    Do you think Ed Snowden would approve of this if you had to give personal information?

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       6 years ago 

      Chill man HAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHHA. He is a creature called a "Milker" .

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         6 years ago 

        Don’t worry, I’m chill. I pursue stoicism after all.

        It’s just so darn obvious when the people don’t know the product. Sometimes the BS needs to be given a little bit more spotlights so everybody sees it. ;)

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           6 years ago 

          Pros
          good encryption method for safety
          free and open source

          Cons
          can't think of any

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             6 years ago 

            Pros
            good encryption method for safety
            free and open source

            Cons
            can't think of any

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