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European Commission to Use Open Source Messaging Service Signal

posted by martyb on Wednesday March 18 2020, @05:47PM   Printer-friendly
from the sending-a-signal-to-use-signal dept.

canopic jug writes:

The Signal messaging progam is now the favored messaging program for the European Commission instead of proprietary messaging programs. The decision was made last month, in February, to prefer it for both internal and external communication.

The Signal open source software is written in JavaScript, TypeScript and CSS and published on GitHub under a General Public Licence v3.0[*] (GPLv3). In particular, the clients are published under the GPLv3 license, while the server code is published under the GNU Affero General Public License v3. The software contains the following features:

  • Voice and video calls to other Signal users;
  • Text messages, files, voice notes, pictures, GIFs, and video messages to other Signal users;
  • Group messaging;
  • Set deletion timers for messages on both the sender and the received devices.

All communications to other Signal users are free of charge and automatically end-to-end encrypted.

[*] Link in source was malformed (lacked URL). Updated to point to official GNU document. --martyb

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 18 2020, @09:25PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 18 2020, @09:25PM (#972919)

    I have started using two phones (actually, I already had two phones, but the second one is for app deployments testing only. I just added a prepaird SIM card to that one, to get a phone number).

    I've now "caved" and installed WhatsApp on my secondary phone. If my friends want a direct response, they know to use signal or SMS. When they message me on WhatsApp, they know I won't read it quickly. They seem to accept it.