foundation and this is the stuff you probably already read the signal was set up by whatsapp found brian acton who left whatsapp in 2018 because of concerns over changes the parent company facebook might make to the app in the future so brian acton $50000000.00 into signal and he said that his goal was to build the most trusted communications experience on the planet signal is developed by open whisper systems which was founded by this guy this secretive what we see marlinspike that is not his real name he is really into privacy obviously marlinspike is a little eccentric he used to be the head of security for twitter and he's now pretty much become a cryptography legend and the co-founder of all those signal foundations and open whisper systems received about $3000000.00 in funding from something called the open the technology fund from 22 oiled to 26 the open technology fund aims to support internet freedom worldwide and up until 2019 was literally a department of radio free asia it literally says so here on its websites the open technology fund initially operated as a program of radio free