Signal has transformed from a cypherpunk curiosity-created by an anarchist coder, run by a scrappy team working in a single room in San Francisco, into a full-blown, mainstream, encrypted communications phenomenon.
In a world where Elon Musk seems to have proven that practically no privately owned communication forum is immune from a single rich person's whims, Signal stands as a counterfactual: evidence that venture capitalism and surveillance capitalism-hell, capitalism, period-are not the only paths forward for the future of technology.
It's a nonprofit that has never taken investment, makes its product available for free, has no advertisements, and collects virtually no information on its users-while competing with tech giants and winning.
Signal's president, Meredith Whittaker, is one of the world's most prominent tech critics. She embodies Signal's iconoclasm, promoting a platform that defies Silicon Valley's norms.
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