Marlinspike and WhatsApp co-founder Brian Acton started the Signal Foundation in 2017. The open source applications, TextSecure for short message service (SMS) texts and RedPhone for voice communications were brought together as Signal after Marlinspike left Twitter in 2013, and founded Open Whisper Systems. Signal itself is based on two applications released by Whisper Systems, a secure communications company that Marlinspike co-founded in 2010, and which was bought by Twitter in 2011. He made a name for himself working on the development of several popular messaging apps. If you'd rather not see your contact's Stories, or if you're not interested in posting your own, you can alway opt out by going to Settings and toggling on "Turn off stories.Marlinspike is known as a privacy advocate and has a long history of working on end-to-end encryption technology. Signal's Stories are now available on its Android and iOS app, and they're "coming soon" to desktop, as well. Seeing as Facebook and Instagram already have similar features, and Snapchat still exists, it remains to be seen whether Signal's take can get people to use the app more. Just take note that everyone in that group will be able to see what you share, even those you'd never interacted with in individual chats.
Plus, you can share stories with existing groups. You can also create custom stories that will only be available to select viewers you choose - say, your colleagues or people with the same interests. These people could be everyone in your contacts that use the app, along with anybody you've had a one-on-one conversation with or whose message request you'd accepted, even if you'd never added them. Signal says that like everything available on its app, Stories are end-to-end encrypted and will only be visible to the people you've chosen to share them with. Also called "Stories," Signal's new feature lets you post photos that will remain viewable on the app for 24 hours, unless you erase them before the time is up. The messaging app has released the feature a month after it revealed that it was hopping on the Stories bandwagon and was already beta testing the capability.
Signal now has its own ephemeral Snapchat-like feature that you can use to share photos with friends.
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