What is the Signal messaging app and how does it work?
Right now. That’s always the best answer to the question, “When is it a good time to start using an encrypted messaging app like Signal?” Ever since Edward Snowden became the world’s most […]
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How Slack supercharged my friends and family messaging
A couple of years ago, my oldest group of friends broke a 15-year streak of communicating via email. It’s not that we’ve stopped staying in touch. Instead, we decided to modernize and […]
Google’s confusing jumble of messaging apps getting another shake-up
Google’s exhausting messaging saga continued Wednesday, with the company pledging — for now — to unify its Android messaging apps around Google Meet. Google told 9to5Google that the company will update its […]
The FBI says you should use encrypted messaging. But do you need to?
Last week, news broke of an extensive espionage campaign—Chinese hackers infiltrating eight US telecommunications companies and gaining access to text and phone conversations. Not long after, the US Federal Bureau of Investigation […]
Google’s Messages for Web helps me hate text messaging a little less
Text messages annoy me. Well, more precisely, sending text messages can be irritating. Some people get along fine with on-screen keyboards, but not me. I don’t like gesture typing’s many poor guesses, […]
