They caused quite an uproar, incompletely due to confusion.
In the wake of this tweet, Signal — whose encryption system WhatsApp itself uses, by the way — saw a swell in druggies.
Signal’s inventors managed to handle the situation, but it showed that demand for secure messaging systems is on the rise.
To battle MITM attacks, Signal inventors have further upgraded their protocol’s end-to- end encryption with a Double Ratchet Algorithm.
Besides, as per Signal’s Sequestration Policy, nearly no metadata is stored on their waiters permanently — only as long as it takes for a communication to be entered.
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