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A magazine journalist's account of being added to a group chat of U.S. national security officials coordinating plans for airstrikes has raised questions about how highly sensitive information is ...

The Trump administration is facing heavy blowback for using Signal, a messaging app, to discuss sensitive military plans. On March 24, officials’ usage of the app was revealed after The Atlantic ...

Signal, an encrypted messaging app hailed for its robust privacy features, recently found itself at the center of a security scandal involving high-ranking U.S. officials. The issue started when ...

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Signal is a messaging app that uses end-to-end encryption to keep your messages private. When you send a message on Signal, the only people who can see it are the recipients. You can use the Signal ...

A popular messaging app called Signal was recently the preferred communications platform for top officials in the Trump administration to discuss secret war plans. But the use of the app, widely ...

According to the Atlantic, top White House officials used the end-to-end encrypted messaging app Signal to discuss military strikes in Yemen before those strikes were carried out on March 15. White ...

If you hadn’t heard of Signal before Monday, chances are you have now. The secure messaging app, available for iPhones and Android devices, has long been popular with journalists because of its robust ...

We have probably all done it: Gossiped about a friend in an email, only to discover we accidentally included the friend in the correspondence. Or dashed off a sensitive text to Gene, our friend, and ...

Signal, the most secure widely available messaging app, has become a go-to resource for journalists, leakers and other people concerned about privacy. But it’s not infallible. And its shortcomings and ...

The app, which was introduced in 2014 and has hundreds of millions of users, is widely viewed as the safest messaging tool because of its encryption technology. By Kate Conger Reporting from San ...