{"id":21174,"date":"2020-02-24T22:22:16","date_gmt":"2020-02-24T19:22:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ibtdi.com\/?p=21174"},"modified":"2020-02-24T02:02:47","modified_gmt":"2020-02-23T23:02:47","slug":"signal-application","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibtdi.com\/en\/signal-application\/","title":{"rendered":"Signal Is Stealing WhatsApp\u2019s Thunder: Why It\u2019s the Better Choice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.al-ain.com\/images\/2019\/10\/08\/102-125033-serious-security-vulnerability-signal-application_700x400.png\" alt=\"\u0646\u062a\u064a\u062c\u0629 \u0628\u062d\u062b \u0627\u0644\u0635\u0648\u0631 \u0639\u0646 \u202aSignal application\u202c\u200f\" width=\"639\" height=\"365\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\">The Signal app is not new, but it has recently begun expanding its services, posing a threat to WhatsApp and its owner, Mark Zuckerberg.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\">\u0648\u0623\u0643\u062f \u062a\u0637\u0628\u064a\u0642 \u0627\u0644\u062a\u0631\u0627\u0633\u0644 \u201cSignal\u201d\u060c \u0648\u0627\u0644\u0630\u064a \u064a\u064f\u0639\u062a\u0628\u0631 \u0627\u0644\u0623\u0643\u062b\u0631 \u0623\u0645\u0627\u0646\u064b\u0627\u060c \u0639\u0646 \u0627\u0633\u062a\u0639\u062f\u0627\u062f\u0647 \u0644\u0645\u0646\u0627\u0641\u0633\u0629\u00a0<strong>\u0648\u0627\u062a\u0633\u0627\u0628<\/strong>; the app\u2019s creator, Moxie Marlinspike, announced that<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\"> Signal will undergo several changes after being developed to make encrypted communication easy for anyone to use.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\">Despite WhatsApp\u2019s advantages and popularity, some users are still looking for greater security and privacy\u2014something that it provides. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\">\u062a\u0637\u0628\u064a\u0642 \u201cSignal\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\">Messaging app enthusiasts have raised a forward-looking question: Could this app take WhatsApp\u2019s place following the potential leap<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\"> it may make in its services in the coming period? The answer will become clearer after we review the pros and cons of both apps in this article.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 28px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif; color: #00ccff;\"><strong>*Security and Privacy<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 28px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif; color: #ff6600;\"><strong>-\u062a\u0634\u0641\u064a\u0631 \u0627\u0644\u062a\u0637\u0628\u064a\u0642<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\">The In-App Encryption feature lets users encrypt the app itself. All messages are securely encrypted before being saved to the drive <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\">on your Android device. A secret code set by the users themselves is used for this purpose.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 28px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif; color: #ff6600;\"><strong>-Metadata Encryption<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\">The app offers users a feature called \u201cMetadata Encryption,\u201d which encrypts metadata, keeping the media content<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\"> you share in the app safe and encrypted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\">Metadata refers to stored data such as image size, pixels, camera model, and more. The Signal app also provides complete data security.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\"> This includes metadata, as well as strong encryption and protection against hacking.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"blfwncu blfwncu-clearfix blfwncu-post-middle blfwncu-float-center blfwncu-align-center blfwncu-column-1\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<div id=\"blfwncu-69289-1102765204\" class=\"blfwncu-container blfwncu-type-custom_code\" data-adid=\"69289\" data-type=\"custom_code\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 28px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif; color: #ff6600;\"><strong>-Backup Encryption<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\">The app lets you encrypt backups using its \u201cBackup\u2019s Encryption\u201d feature, making your messages more secure and preventing easy access <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\">to your messages by hackers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\">Signal also provides end-to-end encryption for messages stored in backups, ensuring that no one can view your private messages.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 28px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif; color: #ff6600;\"><strong>*Security vulnerabilities in WhatsApp<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\">You won\u2019t find the features mentioned above in WhatsApp. Backups of messages created in the WhatsApp app are not encrypted on <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\">At launch, this means it can be accessed very easily by hackers, unlike Signal.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 28px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif; color: #ff6600;\"><strong>*Anyone can access your messages<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\">WhatsApp does not support encryption for messages stored on your device, allowing anyone to access your messages if they <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\">use your device.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\">As for metadata, WhatsApp still leaves metadata unencrypted, which poses a serious risk. This means that the way<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\"> Encryption for metadata is not very strong.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\">Simply put, the worst thing about WhatsApp is that it stores data in the wrong places, where it is easy to access and visible to all apps.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\">Although WhatsApp cannot access your conversations or photos, or listen to your voice recordings, it can still know <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\">who you\u2019re talking to, and can access your address book. It can also sync your data with its parent company, \u201cFacebook.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\">The \u201cSignal\u201d app works much like \u201cWhatsApp\u201d: you sign up with your phone number, and it shows you which of your friends are registered on the app. It also offers users the option to <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\">automatically delete messages after a set number of minutes.<\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; \u0644\u0627 \u064a\u064f\u0639\u062f \u062a\u0637\u0628\u064a\u0642 \u00abSignal\u00bb \u062c\u062f\u064a\u062f\u064b\u0627\u060c \u0648\u0631\u063a\u0645 \u0630\u0644\u0643 \u0628\u062f\u0623 \u0645\u0624\u062e\u0631\u064b\u0627 \u0641\u064a \u062a\u0637\u0648\u064a\u0631 \u062e\u062f\u0645\u0627\u062a\u0647\u061b \u0644\u064a\u0634\u0643\u0644 \u062a\u0647\u062f\u064a\u062f\u064b\u0627 \u0644\u062a\u0637\u0628\u064a\u0642 \u201c\u0648\u0627\u062a\u0633\u0627\u0628\u201d \u0648\u0635\u0627\u062d\u0628\u0647 \u201c\u0645\u0627\u0631\u0643 \u0632\u0648\u0643\u0631\u0628\u064a\u0631\u062c\u201d. \u0648\u0623\u0643\u062f \u062a\u0637\u0628\u064a\u0642 \u0627\u0644\u062a\u0631\u0627\u0633\u0644 \u201cSignal\u201d\u060c \u0648\u0627\u0644\u0630\u064a \u064a\u064f\u0639\u062a\u0628\u0631<span class=\"excerpt-hellip\"> [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":21191,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_ibtdi_aa_focus_keyword":"","_ibtdi_aa_secondary_keywords":"","_ibtdi_aa_audience":"","_ibtdi_aa_tone":"","_ibtdi_aa_summary":"","_ibtdi_aa_reviewer_name":"","_ibtdi_aa_reviewer_bio":"","_ibtdi_aa_reviewer_url":"","_ibtdi_aa_reviewed_date":"","_ibtdi_aa_service_id":"","_ibtdi_aa_related_ids":"","_ibtdi_aa_human_reviewed":"","_ibtdi_aa_disable":"","_ibtdi_aa_disable_links":"","_ibtdi_aa_sources":"","_ibtdi_aa_update_notes":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[491],"tags":[21060,21054,21061,21058,21057,21059,21055,21056,14893],"class_list":["post-21174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-491","tag-signal","tag-signal-application","tag-21061","tag-21058","tag-21057","tag-21059","tag--signal","tag-21056","tag-14893"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibtdi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibtdi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibtdi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibtdi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibtdi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibtdi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21174\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibtdi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibtdi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibtdi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibtdi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}