The controversy surrounding Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's decision to share sensitive military plans over Signal is driving waves of new users to encrypted messaging apps.
Signal's daily active users grew 13% last month, Axios' Sam Sabin reports.
🔐 "It's definitely skyrocketed," says Ari Andersen, founder and CEO of encrypted chat platform Kibu. "It definitely has accelerated interest and traction on a number of fronts, for sure."
Law enforcement, corporate executives and local governments are especially fond of encrypted messaging apps, which offer more security than texting and the ability to automatically delete past messages.
