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Running Signal Will Soon Cost $50 Million a Year (www.wired.com)

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[–] Chup@feddit.de 26 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Signal’s operating costs: around $40 million this year

$14 million a year in infrastructure costs

$6 million annually, goes to telecom firms to pay for the SMS text messages Signal uses to send registration codes to verify new Signal accounts’ phone numbers

$19 million a year or so out of Signal’s budget pays for its staff. Signal now employs about 50 people

Staff budget seem crazy high with about 50 people. That's an average of $31.666 per month per employee.

[–] HanDman@infosec.pub 23 points 1 year ago

In all likelihood a lot of that goes to the top 5 of those 50. If I’m wrong… good.

[–] deezbutts@lemm.ee 15 points 1 year ago

These guys are way smarter than me and have clearly thought about this, but 15% of your operating costs seems wildly high for verifying phone numbers.

[–] solarvector@lemmy.zip 6 points 1 year ago

Still might be high, but if that's budget #s, the employee pay is much lower after taking into about related overhead.

Like HanDman said, hopefully it's not all going to the top handful.

[–] jackpot@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

6 million annually? could they not find some other means to verify or remove the requirement altogether - insanity