However, if you use the app as intended, there are a lot of protections built into Signal to help prevent conversations from falling into the wrong hands. What is Signal, and what makes it private?

Signal, the most secure widely available messaging app, has become a go-to resource. Its shortcomings are why its use by Pete Hegseth has rocked politics.

"Signal’s advanced privacy-preserving technology is always enabled, so you can focus on sharing the moments that matter with the people who matter to you," the app writes in its description.

You can already use Signal for secure chats on the desktop, but you've had to use a Chrome web app to participate in those encrypted conversations. What if you don't like Chrome, or would just ...

Meredith Whittaker spent her first few years running Signal preaching the encrypted-messaging app’s benefits for sensitive conversations, regardless of whether users had anything to hide. This ...

Wire and Signal are both messaging apps, but which app is more secure with protecting your data? Compare them now.

Democrats and liberal groups have a long history of touting the use of Signal before the Trump administration's Signal chat leak with the editor-in-chief of the Atlantic.