Use of encryption App increases after US election

BuzzFeed News reported, that after electing Donald Trump the App called Signal has been faced with a 400 percent rise in daily downloads.

This App is a secure communications tool and therefore well-known in terms of technology, journalism and politics. When using this App people are able to text and speak with one another by encrypting end-to-end, so that only the sender and the intended recipient can read or hear the respective message.

The founder of the App called Signal, Moxie Marlinspike, released a statement saying that “There has never been a single event that has resulted in this kind of sustained, day-over-day increase.” Marlinspike explained that “Trump is about to be put in control of the most pervasive, largest, and least accountable surveillance infrastructure in the world (…) People are maybe a bit uncomfortable with him.”