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Signal Ascends From Hacker Passion Project to Washington’s Top Messaging App

“There are so many great reasons to be on Signal,” he said on X. “Now including the opportunity for the vice president of the United States of America to randomly add you to a group chat for coordination of sensitive military operations.”

 If you're lucky. And then you can be called a sleezebag by the President.

But that's a (rather awkward) joke. Signal offers rock-solid encryption. (Meta's WhatsApp also runs on Signal encryption.) And it's free to use. A lot of people do. For various reasons. (And yes, some are criminal.)

But it's not approved for government-classified information because if the device on either end of the communication is hacked, the communication is too. Which is true of any messaging app.