Keeping your friends up to date is one of the reasons chat apps exist in the first place, but sometimes we're not available to respond to every message or to let all of our contacts know what we're up to. That's where status updates come in handy, and the feature has finally found its way to Signal Private Messenger. In Signal version 5.3.1 and later for iOS and 5.3.7 and later for Android, there are new features you might find on other popular, less secure platforms like Facebook Messenger and WhatsApp. Among those features is a new "About" message for your account, which toes the line... more