Signal Messenger, LLC, is a software organization that was founded by Moxie Marlinspike and Brian Acton in 2018 to take over the role of the Open Whisper Systems project. Its main focus is the development of the Signal app and the Signal Protocol. The organization is funded by the non-profit Signal Foundation, and all of its products are published as free and open-source software.
About Signal Messenger in brief
Signal Messenger, LLC, is a software organization that was founded by Moxie Marlinspike and Brian Acton in 2018 to take over the role of the Open Whisper Systems project. Its main focus is the development of the Signal app and the Signal Protocol. The organization is funded by the non-profit Signal Foundation, and all of its products are published as free and open-source software. The company’s products include an encrypted texting program called TextSecure and an encrypted voice calling app called RedPhone. In November 2011, Whisper systems announced that it had been acquired by Twitter. The financial terms of the deal were not disclosed by either company. In October 2016, Facebook deployed an optional mode called’secret conversations’ in Facebook Messenger which provides end-to-end encryption using an implementation of the signal protocol. In December 2016, Google launched a new messaging app called Allo, which features an optional ‘incognito mode’ that uses the Signal protocol. On 31 October 2017, Open Whis per Systems announced that the Chrome app was deprecated.
At the same time, they announced the release of a standalone desktop client for certain Windows, MacOS and Linux distributions. On 4 October 2016 and Open. Whisper. Systems published a series of documents that OWS had received a subpoena requiring them to provide information associated with two phone numbers for a federal grand jury investigation in the first half of 2016. Only one phone number was registered on Signal, because of how the service is designed, OWS was only able to provide the user account the last time it had connected to the service. Along with the gag order, they were able to lift the order in court after it was challenged by the ACLU, and they have been able to challenge the subpoena in court for a year. In July 2016, the American Civil Liberties Union revealed that Signal had been subpoenaed by the federal government for revealing the phone numbers associated with a grand jury probe.
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