Signal Messenger
big tech,corporationAlt techEncrypted voice calling, video calling and instant messaging
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| Type | Encrypted voice calling, video calling and instant messaging |
| A messaging service funded by the CIA. Found in 2026 to not be deleting messages properly. | |
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Signal is an encrypted messaging service for instant messaging, voice, and video calls.[1] The instant messaging function includes sending text, voice notes, images, videos, and other files. Presented by itself as a privacy-oriented service ideal for dissidents, it was in fact was created and funded by a CIA spinoff.[2][3]
Official narrative
"State-of-the-art end-to-end encryption keeps your conversations secure. We can't read your messages or listen to your calls, and no one else can either. Privacy isn’t an optional mode — it’s just the way that Signal works.¨[4]
Signal is recommended by among others by Edward Snowden, Laura Poitras, Jack Dorsey and Bruce Schneier.[3]
Problems with official narrative
"Never acknowledged in any serious way by the mainstream media, encrypted messaging app Signal’s origins as a US government asset are a matter of extensive public record, even if the scope and scale of the funding provided has until now been secret."[5]
Yasha Levine concluded that "Signal is a government op. Signal was created and funded by a CIA spinoff. It is not your friend... As you can see from the way Parler was shutdown — when our imperial oligarchy wants to cancel an app, it can do so instantly and with a vengeance. But Signal lives on and thrives, despite it being a supposed threat to the almighty surveillance powers of the United States of America."[3]
Failure to allow anonymous sign up
The most requested feature of Signal was the chance to use anonymous usernames rather than phone numbers as IDs, but this was resisted, ostensibly in a bid to prevent spam.Template:Cn
Failure to delete messages
In 2026 it was reported that the FBI were able to recover messages Signal messages from iOS devices that users had "deleted". Meredith Whittaker, president of Signal, framed the behaviour as an OS bug, stating "Notifications for deleted messages shouldn’t remain in any OS notification database".[6]
Use by Norwegian government officials
During Covid, when deciding how to implement lockdowns and other measures, state secretaries in the government used Signal to communicate between themselves. With the feature that it deletes the messages automatically, the use is an attempt at circumvention of the Freedom of Information Act.[7]
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References
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20201112195107/https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Desktop/releases/tag/v1.35.1
- ↑ https://twitter.com/signalapp/status/859125874901135360
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 https://www.nefariousrussians.com/p/signal-is-a-government-op
- ↑ https://signal.org/
- ↑ https://kitklarenberg.substack.com/p/signal-facing-collapse-after-cia
- ↑ https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/22/apple-fixes-bug-that-cops-used-to-extract-deleted-chat-messages-from-iphones/
- ↑ https://www.dagbladet.no/nyheter/refser-regjeringen--systematisk-misbruk/73748480