Many are the users who have adopted the use of the Signal application as the main communication platform thanks to the fact that all the information transmitted through this platform is completely encrypted. ideal for maintaining the privacy of our conversations at all times.
Since its launch for mobile devices, Signal has only been available for the iPhone. Fortunately, after the last update, with which the application reaches version 3.0, from Signal they offer us a iPad version, with which we can continue our conversations through this application in the same privacy environment that it offers us.
But this is not the only news that comes with the latest Signal update, since we also find the following news:
- Forward messages between threads. In this way, we can modify, expand, add and explain in a much clearer way what we want to write.
- Built-in support for video trimming will help us make any clip a highlight.
- By clicking on an avatar in a group conversation, we can send you a message or call you quickly.
Signal is a secure messaging application, thanks to the Open Whispers System encryption (the same that we can find in WhatsApp as it is open source). This application gained popularity when was mentored by Edward Snowden. Being an open source encryption, it is available to everyone who wants to use it, hence both WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger have implemented it in their messaging platforms.
Signal, like Telegram, offers us the possibility of creating chat rooms where all the messages we write self-destruct automatically after a while. For the rest of the functions that they offer us, there is not much difference between using both Signal and Telegram, although the encryption used by Telegram (MTProto) is not open source, which can generate some mistrust, something that is used by Signal.
