Get to know the New Competitor "Signal" Application for the Whatsapp Application
Get to know the New Competitor "Signal" Application for the Whatsapp Application – Changes to privacy regulations that were recently published by WhatsApp, make those who are concerned about personal data begin to have the intention to leave the messaging application.
Among them is the richest man in the world, Elon Musk, the owner of the Tesla electric car company and the SpaceX rocket. Elon Musk, recently recommended this program to his adherents (followers) on Twitter.
Based on The Verge's report, after being promoted by Elon Musk, Signal was flooded with new users to the point that their servers had difficulty sending clarification codes for new users.
Not only Elon Musk, in 2016, the phenomenal whistleblower, Edward Snowden "promoted" Signal.
Then, what exactly is the Signal program? Signal is a messaging program like WhatsApp. This program can be downloaded on an Android or iOS basis and there is also a desktop version.
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Get to know Signals
Like WhatsApp, Signal can also be used for free and encrypted. The interface of this program is almost the same as WhatsApp, including a number of features in it.
It is not strange, because the creator is the same person. Signal is enhanced by Signal Foundation and Signal Messenger LLC.
The Signal Foundation is a non-profit organization founded by WhatsApp founder Brian Acton in 2018, after he left Facebook Inc.
Unlike WhatsApp, Signal is enhanced with a self-help mode. The user becomes a donor to the Signal Foundation, which says it wants to improve its privacy-first communication service.
Privacy
Compiled from Cnet, it's rather difficult to beat Signal in terms of privacy. This program is said not to save the user's data at all. This was revealed by Forbes, who explained the difference in metadata from various messaging programs, such as WhatsApp, iMessage, Facebook Messenger, and Signal.
On its privacy policy website, Signal acknowledges that it uses end-to-end encryption and modern security mechanisms. All user messages and calls will be fully encrypted.
"They (user data) are not shared or seen by anyone except you and the recipient of the message," notes Signal's privacy policy.
Not only messages, user information, including the number used to register, profile and profile photo will be encrypted. In 2018, Signal introduced Sealed Sender, a sophisticated privacy feature that will hide who sent a message and who received it. This feature will further protect user metadata in the back-end mechanism.
WhatsApp-like features
As mentioned earlier, the features on Signal are exactly the same as those on WhatsApp, including basic features such as text messages, images, videos, sounds, GIFs, and documents. Signal has a mute feature, personal and group video calls of up to 5 people.
There is also a feature of disappearing messages or eliminating automatic messages, which WhatsApp recently added. The difference is that at Signal users can manage the time when messages are automatically deleted, starting from 5 seconds to 7 days.
While WhatsApp only provides standard delete messages after 7 days. Due to the similarity of these features, it is likely that WhatsApp users who have switched to Signal will not have difficulty adapting.
Source : kompas.com
