Why Signal won’t compromise on encryption, with [@SignalApp] president Meredith Whittaker

There are a lot of people out there who equate writing good, secure, privacy-enhancing software, with promotion of “self-evidently problematic” anti-statist libertarian agendas which they rail against — presumably because they’re worried that society (i.e. they) will lose something from reducing the potential for surveilling the populace*.

Therefore: we need more stuff like this:

https://www.theverge.com/23409716/signal-encryption-messaging-sms-meredith-whittaker-imessage-whatsapp-china

[*] I would argue that the same also goes for all other dual-use technologies, including AI and sousveillance consumer-grade tracking devices.

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