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YSK: Signal is a great secure private messenger app comparable to others on the market. (restoreprivacy.com)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/youshouldknow

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"When you use Signal, your data is stored in encrypted form on your devices. The only information that is stored on the Signal servers for each account is the phone number you registered with, the date and time you joined the service, and the date you last logged on."

This isn't an ad, I wasn't paid for this post. Just to clear the air: fuck facebook, fuck elon musk and twitter, fuck anyone who thinks this is a paid advertisement. I wish I was paid for this shit, I just wanted to spread the word. Thank you. 😀 👍

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

That information is easily found with a web search, so there is no need to cast aspersions. It's funded by Brian Acton's "activist" funding (interest-free loans of $100 million+ total to Signal Foundation over the years). I'd guess Acton used it as a huge tax write-off the year he sold WhatsApp to Facebook.

Other revenue sources include voluntary user donations and grants from many free press organizations whose members rely on Signal. Some years they report positive net income, and other years they report negative.

Signal Foundation tax forms, which list all general revenue sources: https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/824506840

What Signal says about how they operate: https://signal.org/blog/signal-foundation/ https://signalfoundation.org/en/

Signal Privacy Policy: https://signal.org/legal/#privacy-policy

All the code, including what runs on their servers and in their apps, so you don't need to take their word for anything. You can compile the signal client from source if you like: https://github.com/signalapp

Article which talks about their audit history (this is their weakest point. The full results of the audits Signal paid for were never published): https://restoreprivacy.com/secure-encrypted-messaging-apps/signal/

However, anybody can check for any spooky stuff in their code, so I doubt they would purposely try to hide anything untoward there.