# Meredith Whittaker

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*Per John Kiriakou, Meredith Whittaker is developing a new, and by his account successful, business model for the encrypted-messaging app Signal, an alternative he cites alongside ProtonMail's compromised attempt at the same thing.*

Per [John Kiriakou](https://www.kiripedia.org/wiki/john-kiriakou), **Meredith Whittaker** is working on a new business model for the encrypted-messaging app Signal, as part of what he frames as a necessary search for secure communications alternatives — and, in his assessment, "what she's doing is working."[1] His remarks came in response to a fellow panelist's question — itself prompted by [Andrew Feinstein](https://www.kiripedia.org/wiki/andrew-feinstein)'s recent talk at the same venue on the multiple factors that ended apartheid — about whether activists should look beyond leaks and data toward other forms of resistance.[2][3]

He contrasts her effort with ProtonMail's own attempt at a new business model, saying ProtonMail was compromised through an intergovernmental agreement that allowed authorities to obtain information about who was communicating with whom.[1]

## See also

- [John Kiriakou](https://www.kiripedia.org/wiki/john-kiriakou)

## Sources

1. War & Military · Exposing Crimes is Not a Crime  · John Kiriakou, Jesselyn Radack... · (2026-03-20), at 01:21:44. Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8HH4U7_tKo&t=4904s · Transcript: https://www.kiripedia.org/sources/2026-03-20-disruption-network-lab-war-military-exposing-crimes-is-not-a-crime-jo/
2. War & Military · Exposing Crimes is Not a Crime  · John Kiriakou, Jesselyn Radack... · (2026-03-20), at 01:19:40. Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8HH4U7_tKo&t=4780s · Transcript: https://www.kiripedia.org/sources/2026-03-20-disruption-network-lab-war-military-exposing-crimes-is-not-a-crime-jo/
3. War & Military · Exposing Crimes is Not a Crime  · John Kiriakou, Jesselyn Radack... · (2026-03-20), at 01:20:10. Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8HH4U7_tKo&t=4810s · Transcript: https://www.kiripedia.org/sources/2026-03-20-disruption-network-lab-war-military-exposing-crimes-is-not-a-crime-jo/

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