FOIA docs: White House officials used auto-deleting Signal chats even after Trump advised in April 2025 against using the app, raising US recordkeeping concerns
Q&A with Signal's Meredith Whittaker on why online child safety efforts risk mass surveillance, leaving the markets that demand weakening of encryption, more
Meredith Whittaker has spent years arguing that privacy is a prerequisite for a free society.
Q&A with Signal's Meredith Whittaker on why online child safety efforts risk mass surveillance, leaving the markets that demand weakening of encryption, more
Meredith Whittaker has spent years arguing that privacy is a prerequisite for a free society.
The FBI and CISA warn hackers tied to Russian intelligence services are targeting users of messaging apps such as Signal with phishing attacks
The FBI and CISA warn hackers tied to Russian intelligence services are targeting users of messaging apps such as Signal with phishing attacks
It echoes earlier alerts from the Netherlands and Germany, and is the latest to warn about targeting of Signal users and others. — Learn more.
Signal's Meredith Whittaker says deeper integration of AI agents into devices is “perilous” for encryption, since agents need access to lots of data across apps
Artificial intelligence agents that autonomously carry out tasks pose a threat to secure apps such as Signal …Forums:SlashdotForums:Msmash /Slashdot:AI Agents ‘Perilous’ for Secure Apps Such as Signal...
ChatGPT told a teen who died by suicide to call for help 74 times over months but also used words like “hanging” and “suicide” very often, say family's lawyers
Help Nitasha Tiku report on mental health and AI by contacting her securely on Signal at nitasha.10.
After AWS's major outage, Signal's Meredith Whittaker says there “isn't really another choice” but to use AWS and “the entire stack” is “owned by 3-4 players”
Meredith Whittaker is using the AWS outage as an opportunity to highlight the 'concentration … Bluesky: @meredithmeredith , @meredithmeredith , @meredithmeredith , and @meredithmeredith Forums: r/tech...
WhatsApp fixed a zero-click bug in its iOS and Mac apps that was being used, alongside a now-fixed Apple flaw, to hack into devices of “specific targeted users”
“Incomplete authorization of linked device synchronization messages … Matt Suiche : New WhatsApp advisory (CVE-2025-55177) just came out. Amnesty International says they have been investigating cases...
Microsoft's Recall is meeting a lot of resistance from app developers, with Brave and AdGuard joining Signal in blocking the controversial Windows AI tool
Brave and AdGuard are both following Signal's lead in blocking Microsoft's AI tool. … Microsoft's controversial Recall feature …