In brief
Use Signal
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) January 7, 2021

Here's a reason: I use it every day and I'm not dead yet. https://t.co/Trhgqbwdpj
— Edward Snowden (@Snowden) January 7, 2021
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A recent endorsement by Tesla CEO Elon Musk has propelled privacy-focused messaging app Signal to the very top of major app charts—partly thanks to WhatsApp’s recent controversial announcement.
Use Signal
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) January 7, 2021
“Use Signal,” Musk tweeted on January 7—a day after Facebook-owned WhatsApp, one of Signal’s competitors, began pressuring its users to share their personal data with its parent social media.
According to app analytics platform App Annie, Signal is currently the most popular free app on both AppStore and Google Play. WhatsApp, on the other hand, is ranked 13 on iOS and 27 on Android.
Signal is known for using an end-to-end encryption (E2EE) protocol. In cryptography, this method is used to establish a communication channel between two parties that is impossible to “eavesdrop” on.
In E2EE, special encryption keys are created on a sender’s device, which only the recipient is able to decode. This means that data is protected not only from hackers and other malicious actors but from the Internet, server, and service providers as well. While the message itself can be intercepted and copied, it cannot be decoded without the appropriate keys.
“I trust Signal because it’s well built, but more importantly, because of how it’s built: open source, peer reviewed, and funded entirely by grants and donations. A refreshing model for how critical services should be built,” Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey said in the past.
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After WhatsApp’s announcement, Edward Snowden, America’s most notorious whistleblower, also confessed that he is using Signal every day—and still hasn't died from it.
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Here's a reason: I use it every day and I'm not dead yet. https://t.co/Trhgqbwdpj
— Edward Snowden (@Snowden) January 7, 2021
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