REPLAY: Signal's Meredith Whittaker on Backdoors and AI
December 31, 2025
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December 31, 2025
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REPLAY: Signal's Meredith Whittaker on Backdoors and AI
Summary
This is a special interview episode with Meredith Whittaker, the president of the Signal Foundation. I'm sure you all know, and maybe even use, the Signal messaging app. Here we sat down with Whittaker to talk all about the state of Signal today, the threat of AI to end-to-end encryption, what backdoors actually look like, and much more. This is a wide-ranging discussion where one of the few journalists who has revealed new details about backdoors (Joseph) gets to speak to one of the most important people in the world of encryption (Whittaker). Definitely take a listen. Paid subscribers got access to this episode early by the way.
YouTube Version: https://youtu.be/kconAXZgsxg
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