Signal, like it come to be calledIt could be the biggest scandal to attack the Trump administration in the first months of power. But it's great for Signal.
Since The news is broken On Monday Senior Trump administration members Inadvertently included the editors of the Atlantic Ocean in a group conversation on the encrypted texting platform, where officials are implementing secret plans for Yemen bombing, the next news cycle and continuous mention of the signal that led to the encrypted texting platform doubled its normal download speed, non -profit organizations that run signals. Given that 2025 was a year of Muslim banners for the development of the signal, according to the leadership of the signal, which made this week the largest swelling in the application of the US application for nearly 11 years of the signal existence.
In Signal's history, this is the largest growth moment of the United States by a large amplitude, Mr. Jun Harada, the head of the growth signal and the partnership. “It is the mind, even at us.”
Harada refused to give absolute amounts to the growth of signal users in addition to saying that its total downloaded download is among hundreds of millions, which is the case in a few years. But he said that the adoption rate of the week was twice as much as a typical week for 2025, it was twice as much as a typical week at the same time last year. Harada said immediately after the Atlantic break the story of the use of Signal in the Yemen bombing, Harada said. And it is maintained. We have maintained that percentage every day.
In the history of the signal, the sudden increase can be comparable to the application occurring when WhatsApp Change its privacy policy by 2021Harada said, resulting in millions of users abandoning that communication application. But that incident mainly brought non -American people to signals, unlike the signal bump focused on us.
The number from the Smart Company Smart Sensor Market Market is largely in accordance with the analysis of the signal of that growth: The company said that the download in the US increased by 105 % compared to the previous week and 150 % compared to an average week in 2024. Outside the United States, the sensor tower only decreased by 21 % last week.
The Atlantic Revealed on Monday that Defense Minister Pete Hegseth, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, National Security Advisor Michael Waltz, JD Vance, and other Trump officials used a conversation about Atlanta Airite. The security practice of the Trump administration is still resonating the next day.
The scandal has questioned whether officials of the executive branch plans to attack in the air by using personal devices that are not approved or even not approved than those rather than safety machines for classified conversations. Screenshot of group conversations Published by The Atlantic on Wednesday Indicates that officials are using the message feature of the signal disappearing to delete their contacts, and the ability to violate the US records.