The President’s Signals Signal by Elon Musk over the hope of secret messengers

on monday, A major departure from Amazon’s web services It affected a large number of websites and applications, including the messenger signal that was finally delivered. In response, x Executive chairman and chief technology officer Elon Musk open it that he no longer trusts the sign. “I don’t trust the sign anymore,” said Sumk, plainly.
To be clear, the central infrastructure in which the infrastructure is reduced can put the encrypted communication made by the signal at risk, since the sign does not handle the keys of the encrypted data hosted on that hosted on that hosted on that hosted on that hosted on that hosted on that hosted on that hosted on that hosted on that hosted on that hosted on that hosted on that hosted on that hosted on that hosted on that hosted on that hosted on that hosted property held in that property held in that property held in that property held in that property held in that property held in that property held in that property held in that property held in that property held in that property held in that property held in that property held in that property held in that property.
PSA: We know that the signal is low for some people. This appears to be related to the large AWS outage. Stand by.
– Meredith Whittaker (@mer__edith) October 20, 2025
Signal President Meredith Whittaker he answered Musk’s post on X, notes, “the sign is trusted by the security community and the public, and hundreds of millions of others, because they can test it, and because they tested, and because of the test, and they are secure – for more than a decade.”
In recent months, Musk has been promoting the use of X chat as a secure, encrypted communication method between its users. However, security experts have it – were told That any encrypted messaging app must be open source if it is to be trusted for secure communication is, in addition to other concerns. After all, how is anyone supposed to know what the app is doing if they can’t look at the code?
Try chat, our new, encrypted communication system for text, file transfer and audio/video calls.
Enable from the left menu.
– Elon Musk (@ElonMusk) October 20, 2025
Xsoma labels X Chat, which is intended to eventually replace a traditional messaging app, as beta software in its place. There were reports In 2018 X (then known as Twitter) was testing end-to-end encryption; However, the feature has not received an official support announcement until 2023. UX also said that they plan to eventually make it easier to ensure that their chat features are as safe and secure as they say they are.
Jack Dorsey, who originally founded X as Twitter and led the company for years, was there turn on This is the end of his tenure as CEO. Most recently, Dorsey “Vibe coded” a location-based messaging app called Bitchat over the weekend.
A good old thing he found blindness During the recent overthrow of the Nepalese government due to the communication features and applications of the application that allow them to work in local areas without access to the Internet. An app with similar features, known as Firechat, was used During the Hong Kong protests all the way back in 2014.
Of course, the signal is not perfect and has received its fair share of criticism over the years. Signal’s reliance on phone numbers has always been portrayed as a bad idea by security researchers until the messaging app recently allowed users to register with just a username.
Notably, Whittaker received some of his opinions today regarding signal openness and validation from many developers who have worked with Bitcoin. Teter Todd, perhaps best known for being accused of being the creator of Botin Satoshi Nakamoto which was released on Android and IOS running on user devices actually corresponds to the code published by the code.
Additionally there have been fertility issues for over a year and the issue is finally being closed due to lack of interest in fixing it https://t.co/487b9bhmuc@Elonmusks Please ensure that x chat starts rebuilding
– Steve Lee (@Moneyball) October 20, 2025
Todd has contributed to Bitcoin Core over the years, which is a Bitcoin NODE software with a strong adherence to permissions to rebuildwhich allows end users to verify that the application is built on the same open source code published elsewhere. Steve Lee, who leads an open source bitcoin grant provider, also revealed that there is an open issue related to the rebuilding of I-Android.
Apparently, bitcoin purists, talk endlessly about the benefits of the network’s DennnTralization, and have a problem with the signal’s reliance on centralized infrastructure that led to this early morning.
Whether you’re talking about bitcoin or private messaging, there are many trade-offs to be made when balancing privacy and overall security with creating an app that’s easy for people to use. Signal is still the standard when it comes to encrypted messaging, but more competition in this area will never hurt, as long as it provides reliable privacy.