Two years later in 2018, the Signal Foundation was created. On the 29 th of July 2016, Signal Messenger was released to the world by Open Whisper Systems. Open Whisper Systems was created in 2013 as an open-source collaborative effort to continue the development of TextSecure and RedPhone. Before being bought by Twitter back in 2011 as the then social media startup was looking to improve its security. Whisper Systems, had been dabbling in these sorts of secure messengers since 2010 with products such as TextSecure and RedPhone. And it’s pretty awesome feature-wise too. Signal is a free messenger service that is not for profit. Both services being run by Facebook, and happy to harvest your data. That’s where Signal comes in. That is why many are moving away from the likes of WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger. But nowadays, security and privacy are more important than ever. As it currently stands, a lot of people are using messenger services such as WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, and iMessage to keep in contact with friends and family. The messenger landscape is constantly evolving.

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