If this is enough for high-ranked American officials, such as Vice President JD Vance, to discuss the Yemen air strike on it, it is going to be quite good for regular users. Correct? A lot of people are answering this question with a strong yes because they run to download the signal.

While it is reported that American officials were discussing the country’s war plans on an app, such as the signal has triggered a political firstorm in Washington DC, regular users around the world have rapid interest in the app – so that the signal app has reached the top of the chart on the store. More people want to use the app, given that it is believed that it is so safe that even the US government depends on it to discuss its war plans.

According to data from the AppFigures, the signal app download jumped around the world to 28 percent on the day the story about Yemen broke. In the US, Download saw a 45 percent spike, while in Yemen, they increased by 42 percent. In fact, before leakage, the signal was ranked 50th among social networking apps in Yemen, although it has now climbed 9th position, which has brought more and more users to the board as the news of leaks spreading.

A few days ago, a leaked chat on the signal app between high ranked American officials made headlines worldwide. The chat screenshot, leaked from the signal app, went online after the Atlantic editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg, was accidentally added to a signal group chat, where the officers were present, including the vice-president JD Vance and the Defense Secretary Peter Hegseth.

After the incident it seems that users around the world have more confidence in signals. The major security facility of the signal app is its end-to-end encryption feature. This means that only sectors and recipients can read the message. The user is also not accessible to its developers of the chat signal, so no one can technically read messages and interactions between two users or a group.

This phenomenon has strengthened the reputation of the signal as a safe message compared to apps such as WhatsApp and Telegram. Although both encryption, signal-given that it is more trusted by a non-profit.

According to reports, users are particularly using encrypted platforms to protect the communication in areas and between privacy-conscious persons. However, experts have warned that no app is foolish if users fail to follow the safety protocol. Something that we really saw in the case of our story of our and Yemen. This was reportedly not caused by a defect in the signal, but due to a human error that led to an accidental entry of a journalist in the group chat.