The Democratic National Committee has embraced an app that Edward Snowden says he uses every day

The Democratic National Committee has apparently embraced the smartphone app that ex-National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden says he uses every day, according to Vanity Fair's Nick Bilton.

It's called Signal, an app designed for secure text messages and phone calls, and it's easy to see why it would be beneficial.

In June, at least two different hacker groups tied to the Russian government were expelled from the servers of the DNC, where they had burrowed in and downloaded reams of data for roughly a year. Much of that data, in the form of leaked internal emails, were later posted to the website WikiLeaks.

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