Tag: signal

• Signal Is More Than Encrypted Messaging. Under Meredith Whittaker, It’s Out to Prove Surveillance Capitalism Wrong

  August 28, 2024

  ten years ago, WIRED published a news story about how two little-known, slightly ramshackle encryption apps called RedPhone and TextSecure were merging to form something called Signal. https://www.wired.com/story/meredith-whittaker-signal/ more ›

• Signal’s Meredith Whittaker on the Telegram security clash and the “edge lords” at OpenAI 

  May 25, 2024

  Meredith Whittaker has had it with the “frat house” contingent of the tech industry. I sat down with the CEO of Signal at VivaTech in Paris to go over the… more ›

• Social Media, Authoritarianism, and the World As It Is

  March 30, 2024

  Earlier this month, the United States House of Representatives passed the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act, a bill that would force TikTok’s parent company to sell the… more ›

• Exploiting vulnerabilities in Cellebrite UFED and Physical Analyzer from an app’s perspective

  April 27, 2021

  Cellebrite makes software to automate physically extracting and indexing data from mobile devices. They exist within the grey – where enterprise branding joins together with the larcenous to be called… more ›