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Signal is not the place for top secret communications, but it might be the right choice for you – a cybersecurity expert on what to look for in a secure messaging app

  • Written by Frederick Scholl, Associate Teaching Professor of Cybersecurity, Quinnipiac University
Signal is not the place for top secret communications, but it might be the right choice for you – a cybersecurity expert on what to look for in a secure messaging appSignal is in the news because of a security failure, but the app itself is quite secure.AP Photo/Kiichiro Sato

When top White House defense and national security leaders discussed plans for an attack on targets in Yemen over the messaging app Signal, it raised many questions about operational security and recordkeeping and national security laws....

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