ICYMI: Signal

"The encrypted messaging app, Signal, has become a newsroom staple for communicating with sources, accepting tips, and talking to colleagues. 

"While it’s a practical tool for anyone concerned with the security and privacy of their conversations, journalists are particularly interesting targets and would benefit from locking down Signal.

"If you’re not yet using it, learn how to get started here.

"Signal makes it easy to have a secure conversation: It looks and feels identical to your default text messaging app, but security experts so often recommend it because of what it does in the background.

"Signal offers end-to-end encryption, meaning only conversational participants can read the messages. While regular phone calls or text messages allow your phone company to unscramble your conversations, even the team behind Signal can’t listen to them.

"You don’t need to take their word for it. Signal is open source, meaning the code is available for anyone to review, and security audit specialists have torn it apart and confirmed as much. Signal retains nearly no metadata, or information about who spoke to whom and when. (The developers proved it in court.)

"These are advantages you want in an encrypted messaging app. Newsrooms can attract unwanted attention, and journalists who already use Signal should consider hardening it against physical access, unwanted remote access, and network-based eavesdropping."


 

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