Listen "Signal's Meredith Whittaker on Backdoors and AI"
Episode Synopsis
This is a special interview episode with Meredith Whittaker, the president of the Signal Foundation. I'm sure you all know, and maybe even use, the Signal messaging app. Here we sat down with Whittaker to talk all about the state of Signal today, the threat of AI to end-to-end encryption, what backdoors actually look like, and much more. This is a wide-ranging discussion where one of the few journalists who has revealed new details about backdoors (Joseph) gets to speak to one of the most important people in the world of encryption (Whittaker). Definitely take a listen. Paid subscribers got access to this episode early by the way.
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Dark Wire: The Incredible True Story of the Largest Sting Operation Ever
Signal page on government data requests
Microsoft Will Switch Off Recall by Default After Security Backlash
Telegram CEO Pavel Durov interview
Subscribe at 404media.co for early access and bonus content.
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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