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Why Signal won’t compromise on encryption, with president Meredith Whittaker

The Vergecast

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Is RCS a Competition for Signal?

Do you think that RCS represents competition for signal? Not at the moment. Signal is not just encrypted, right? Like WhatsApp uses the signal protocol to encrypt its messages. Google signal doesn't have any of that data. We actually go out of our way as I just described to avoid having it or touching it or knowing it, right?

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