“We can confirm that the deployed mitigation has worked and we have started to see recovery,” AWS said in a status report on the disruption.ĭownDetector users reported simultaneous outages with some other apps, including dating platform Tinder and popular news and discussion website Reddit.įirst launched in 2014, Signal saw a surge in downloads earlier this year after Facebook-owned messaging service WhatsApp tweaked its terms of service and sparked privacy concerns. The outage coincided with “degraded performance” in a cloud server owned by Amazon Web Services (AWS) in northern Virginia state, the firm said. “Apologies for the disruption, and we continue to work towards full recovery.” “Messaging has recovered for 99% of users, but we’re still working on the remaining 1%,” the company said on Twitter. 8 to May 15, due to “confusion” and “misinformation” over “our principles and the facts.The DownDetector site logged reports of interrupted service in the US, Europe, Hong Kong and other parts of the world Whatsapp ended up delaying the proposed update, from Feb. A spokesperson for Signal claimed that move prompted a “super, super exodus” of users from the platform to Signal. In January, a privacy update on Whatsapp asked users to consent to businesses sharing their data with Facebook for marketing purposes. This is not the first time users have ditched Facebook-run platforms for Signal and other platforms in recent months due to data protection and privacy concerns. “Facebook-owned Whatsapp being down is a reminder that you and your friends should probably be using a more private, non-profit alternative like anyway (or another open-source app of your choice),” he wrote in a tweet. NSA whistleblower and privacy activist Edward Snowden tweeted his support for Signal on Monday. Whatsapp, on the other hand, stores user data to share with Facebook, even if messages themselves are protected. Moreover, Signal is owned and operated by a non-profit foundation, rather than a multinational corporation.
What sets Signal apart is the extra level of security it provides: messages’ metadata are encrypted, blocking out hackers and law enforcement agencies alike. In fact, Whatsapp integrated Signal’s protocol into its encryption software in 2016. Signal uses end-to-end encryption, similar to Whatsapp and iMessage.
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