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Signal is famous for knowing as little about its users as possible. The app isn’t hoarding metadata, tracking you, or showing you ads. President @meredithmeredith.bsky.social sees a shift underway as the monoliths of big tech lose popularity and the old economics of Silicon Valley become brittle.

wired.comWith Threats to Encryption Looming, Signal’s Meredith Whittaker Says ‘We’re Not Changing’At WIRED’s The Big Interview event, the president of the Signal Foundation talked about secure communications as critical infrastructure and the need for a new funding paradigm for tech.

3/12/24, 8:38 pm127 reposts485 likes

Marsha Snodgrass

@marshaformo143.bsky.social

6 Dec 2024

Wow!!! I really had never heard of Signal before- but I am crazy impressed!! I’m going to check it out!

Seegras

@seegras.bsky.social

4 Dec 2024

As little as possible about its users as possible, except for the phone number.

Isabel

@isibel.bsky.social

4 Dec 2024

But who does her hair, we need answers

Taliesan

@taliesan.bsky.social

6 Dec 2024

They aren't 'becoming brittle' in the passive voice. They are actively being undermined and undone through the very active, decades-long work of dedicated activists. Acknowledge the authorship of these trends.