On November 16th, Meredith Whittaker, President of Signal, published a detailed breakdown of the popular encrypted messaging app’s running costs for the very first time. The unprecedented disclosure’s motivation was simple - the platform is rapidly running out of money, and in dire need of donations to stay afloat. Unmentioned by Whittaker, this budget shortfall results in large part due to the US intelligence community, which lavishly financed Signal’s creation and maintenance over several years, severing its support for the app.
    • db0English
      5•1 year ago

      Matrix has entered the chat

        • db0English
          4•1 year ago

          Yes, encryption is it’s core concept. It’s why it’s actually so less user friendly in many aspects

    • @naevaTheRat@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      3•1 year ago

      signal used to just be an encryption layer over SMS. it was awesome, you just had to verify keys in a second channel when starting to message someone new.