Podcast: Signal's President Meredith Whittaker on Backdoors and AI

Meredith Whittaker, president of the Signal Foundation, discusses threats to end-to-end encryption in a 404 Media podcast interview. She says AI features such as Microsoft's Recall create a "plaintext honeypot" on the operating system, which would subvert the contract between Signal and its users; after a backlash, Microsoft said it will switch Recall off by default. Whittaker also says that, to her knowledge, Signal engineers have not been approached by FBI officials, a claim Telegram CEO Pavel Durov made about his own staff, and she describes Signal's growth as driven by political volatility.