“the barrier for hackers and hostile nation states is no longer Signal’s gold standard encryption. The vulnerability is some agentic system that is built in an incredibly insecure way”
Excerpt From
“Signal’s Meredith Whittaker on AI and the tension between privacy and public safety”
Taylor Owen, Mitchell Stuart
The Globe and Mail
Tim Bouma
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