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How Signal’s Meredith Whittaker Remembers SignalGate: ‘No Fucking Way’
The Signal Foundation president recalls where she was when she heard Trump cabinet officials had added a journalist to a highly sensitive group chat.
Over the following days and weeks, the incident would become known as “ SignalGate ”—and created a legitimate risk that the fallout would cause people to question Signal’s security, instead of pointing their fingers at the profoundly dubious op-sec of senior-level Trump officials. What we're calling for is very clear developer-level opt-outs to say, “Do not fucking touch us if you're an agent.” Signal is entrusted with some of the most high-stakes communications in the world, like real life-or-death communications—militaries, governments, every boardroom, human rights workers, dissidents. There were a lot of lines that stood out to me, but I'm gonna read this one to you: “The neoliberal bargain is fraying, and if we don’t vie for control over the algorithms, data, and infrastructure that are shaping our lives, we face a grim future.
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