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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, 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’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]

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  1. ↑ Disruption Network Lab, 2026-03-20. 01:21:44 on YouTube · Transcript
  2. ↑ Disruption Network Lab, 2026-03-20. 01:19:40 on YouTube · Transcript
  3. ↑ Disruption Network Lab, 2026-03-20. 01:20:10 on YouTube · Transcript

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