by Freddie Savundra - Founder & CEO • 17 October 2022
Everyone hates Secure Mail. Everyone. Nobody enjoys using it, it’s even worse for the client. We use it for one reason, security. This (free) alternative might be just what your business needs.
I’m going to caveat that this is just my opinion. If I’m right 24 Months from now, I will look back, and give myself a pat on the back.
Open Source is a technical way of saying that it’s a community of building. It’s Peer reviewed so everyone can inspect each other’s code, this is a real coup for Signal. What this means is that the entire architecture is 100%, completely transparent, so anyone (with a decent code base) could deploy a Branded Signal Application for their business. This is huge, not only because it means you live and die by the code Signal deploy, but also because of how well it’s been written..
Unlike other providers, Signal really does deploy a state of the art encryption protocol. In practice this means if with access to the data, it’s completely jumbled and unreadable. Close to bulletproof from a data security point of view. So any concerns of Company A seeing what Company B are doing go clearly out of the window, as it will appear as a complete random string of letters and characters.
It’s actually a really powerful messaging application. Full of useful tools such as voice memos, GIF’s, Emjoi’s, clear voice calls, Groups, stickers and message expiry settings. It’s basically a more secure, more user friendly, better version of WhatsApp!
Best of all, it’s completely free! It’s a no brainer in our eyes and will be the basis for many more apps in years to come.
It gets a thumbs up from Meet Parker, we’ve been Apps using this as a basis in the past, it’s fully integrated into the Meet Parker Solution and hopefully we will see traction grow further.
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