“Signal protects against outside snoops listening in on your private conversations,” Riana Pfefferkorn, an encryption policy expert at Stanford University, told NBC News.
“It doesn’t protect against the risk of outsiders accessing the device where you’re using the app. If a phone has been hacked and has spyware implanted on it, then your messages and other files on the device could be getting read without your knowledge,” she said.
- Date Published: 3.25.2025
- Original Publication:NBC News