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WhatsApp Co-Founder Puts $50M Into Signal To Supercharge Encrypted Messaging

Feb 22, 20187 min
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Episode description

In the four or so years since it launched, end-to-end encrypted messaging app Signal has become the security community's gold standard for surveillance-resistant communications. Its creators have built an encryption protocol that companies from WhatsApp to Facebook Messenger to Skype have all added to their own products to offer truly private conversations to billions of people.

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