Signal Private Messenger for Android

You're watching Infosec Bytes, a flash course in information security for journalists. We're based at the Centre for Investigative Journalism in London and supported by the Logan Foundation.

This is a tutorial on how to install and use Signal Private Messenger to do encrypted chat and make encrypted voice and video calls on an Android smartphone.

Be sure to check out our video on how to install and use Signal on an iPhone (   • Signal Private Messenger for iPhone  ), and our Introduction to Signal Private Messenger (   • Introduction to Signal Private Messenger  ).

Read about Signal here: https://whispersystems.org/

For information about the Android permissions Signal asks for when you install it, read this article:

https://support.whispersystems.org/hc...

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Animations by Jose Passarelli

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This video could not have been made without invaluable criticism and feedback from reviewers:

Marie Gutbub
Information Security Trainer/Journalist
https://shiromarieke.github.io/

Jens Kubieziel
Security Researcher
https://kubieziel.de/blog/

Fabio Natali
Software Developer/Information Security Trainer
https://fabionatali.com/

Christian Vandrei
Privacy Activist

Dr. Richard Tynan
Technologist
  / richietynan  

Daniel Anti-Freeze
Information Security Trainer
  / _anti_freeze_  


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