From the post:
Today we’re making the Signal Desktop beta available. Signal Desktop brings the trusted private messaging experience of Signal to the desktop, with a simplicity that allows you to seamlessly continue conversations back and forth between your mobile device and your desktop computer.
Private messaging, now with all ten fingers
As always, everything is end-to-end encrypted and painstakingly engineered in order to keep your communication safe – allowing you to send high-quality private group, text, picture, and video messages for free.
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Multiple devices, single identifier
Signal Desktop is a Chrome app which links with your phone, so all incoming and outgoing messages are displayed consistently on all your devices. Your contacts don’t have to guess where to message you, and when you switch devices the conversation you started will already be there.
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Android devices only, for now
For the initial Signal desktop beta, only linking to Android devices is supported. Follow us on twitter for updates on when the iOS app supports Signal Desktop.
View source
All of our code is free, open source, and available on GitHub. This allows experts to verify our protocols and our implementations.
Like everything we do at Open Whisper Systems, dedicated development is supported by community donations and grants. Signal Desktop contains no advertisements, and it doesn’t cost anything to use.
Terrorists don’t use encrypted messaging, but that is not a reason for you to avoid end-to-end encryption.
From the How do I help? page:
- Spread the word – Open WhisperSystems is a collaborative open source project and does not have a dedicated PR department. We rely on our users to help explain the benefits of using our software. Friends don’t let friends send plaintext!
- Help your fellow users – Join our mailing list and assist new and existing users, or help shape the future of the project by participating in the discussions that are held there. We also appreciate assistance with marking issues as duplicates in our GitHub repos, answering questions that are raised in the form of issues, helping to reproduce bugs while providing additional details, or performing other forms of triage.
- Contribute code – If you have Android or iOS development experience, please consider helping us tackle some of the open issues in our repositories. Pull requests for new features and functionality are also welcome.
- Contribute money – BitHub is our experiment in collaborative funding for open source projects. Donating to our BitHub pool provides an additional incentive for developers to contribute their work and time. You can also donate to Open WhisperSystems via the Freedom of the Press Foundation.
The Open WhisperSystems project is where it is today because of your help and support. Thank you!
To market end-to-end encryption, would e3 be a good logo?
Ex. If e3 is banned, only criminals will have e3.