✅ Final Thoughts Friday for 2025-03-28
I delve into Signal's unexpected mainstream news moment and highlight Meredith Whittaker at SXSW.
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The story that caught my eye this week was how Signal was catapulted into mainstream news… but for all the wrong reasons.
Techmeme: Trump officials accidentally added The Atlantic's EIC to a Signal group chat about the US' Houthi war plans; Signal is not approved for sharing classified info (Jeffrey Goldberg/The Atlantic)
By Jeffrey Goldberg / The Atlantic. View the full context on Techmeme.
So, in the hope of educating those that might not have gotten the gist of why Signal before, here is Meredith Whittaker, President of Signal being awesome on stage at SXSW.
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