"Meredith Whittaker, president of the Signal Foundation, the difference between Signal and WhatsApp is no trivial matter: It's like the difference between 10% gold mixed with 90% brass and 100% gold, she explains on a video call with EL PAIS, her first conversation with a Spanish-language publication since her new position was announced in 2022, after she spent time working at Google."
"What about when that means appearing in headlines as the best app for people looking to evade justice? That's news about them. It's not really news about us, she answers. It's like, Let's drive this contraband over the border and use the highway.' Is that a story about the highway or about the guys [using it]? Confusing the infrastructure with the people who use their agency to do one or another thing"
Signal has been used by high-level figures and has appeared in several high-profile incidents. In March, a U.S. Department of Defense team that discussed an attack on Yemen accidentally added a journalist to a group chat (Signalgate). In Spain, recordings showed Socialist Party member Santos Cerdan recommending Signal to adviser Koldo Garcia, who dismissed it in favor of WhatsApp; Garcia has been summoned to testify in a kickbacks scandal. Meredith Whittaker, president of the Signal Foundation, emphasizes privacy as the platform's sole focus and describes Signal as the gold standard compared with WhatsApp, distinguishing infrastructure from users who misuse it.
Read at english.elpais.com
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