Meredith Whittaker

Meredith Whittaker

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President of @signalapp (Also on Mastodon at @mer__edith@mastodon.world)

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Meredith Whittaker

This cannot be repeated enough. Not just because it’s true, but because when people believe the lie that Telegram is private and secure, they can put themselves and the people they communicate with in danger.

Founder of @signalapp, @moxie Marlinspike on Telegram: "Telegrams not a private messenger. There's nothing private about it. It's the opposite. It's a cloud messenger where every message you've ever sent or received is in plain text in a database that telegram the organization

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My point here is that the implementations of AI agents esp in the OS, w the pervasive permissions, insecure MCP architectures, and requirement for data access, undermine Signal’s (and others’) ability to provide privacy via e2ee at the application layer. This is a big problem.

Meredith Whittaker says AI agents make encryption irrelevant. To be useful digital employees, they need system-level access to your messages, browser, files, and clicks. That collapses the blood-brain barrier between applications and the operating system. “Our encryption no

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Um, the implementations of AI agents in the OS rn undermines Signal’s (& others’) ability to ensure privacy via e2ee at the app layer. Gave a talk w more detail at CCC. It’s a big problem & a paradigm shift in computing and you should understand it.

Meredith Whittaker

One of my most deeply held beliefs is that refusing to name truth makes you stupid--literally degrades your intellect. Engaging in mental gymnastics to justify what's convenient but unevidenced, unjust but personally beneficial, 'rewires your neural map' in ways that degrade your overall ability to understand and analyze the world around you, which is a precondition for intelligence and creativity.

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