Paris

listening to meredith whittaker, president of the signal foundation, speak on privacy in the age of AI at the american library in /paris tonight

fyi, there's a q&a at the end, if anyone herr has any burning questions

your mom's favorite farcaster (probably), building /quidli 🦑, casting in /justinahn, daoing in /🍊 & /🟪

someone, not me, brought up decentralized systems and then tied in bitcoin as an example 

her stated response is that decentralization alone doesn't mean anything to her and with regard to crypto in general her view is that it's promising but that whales have corrupted initiatives so far, specifically highlighting the winklevoss twins 🤣

one thing she's already insisting on is that signal does not want an open contribution based ecosystem 

according to her, their approach to open source is more to demonstrate their commitment to transparency to users, not necessarily to have external people build along

When decentralised server layer on Signal?

Creator economy person + Award-winning Producer🤘🏼god-tier hostess 🦉 migration updates 🦅

the american library in paris does very much have local npr affiliate vibes 🤣

Scrolled too fast and thought this was a tiny desk concert

still mostly analog. patterns, builder, entrepreneur, analyzing your transactions since 2016

she has not specifically addressed telemessage but did cite and get into a little the impact of salt typhoon 

her stance at the moment is that she and the foundation are bystanders by design and that their approach to the app is to do "one thing and one thing well" regardless of who the user is 

having said that, she did state that she does believe government officials should have access to neutral technology that is not profit driven to handle and protect their communications (interestingly it doesn't seem like she's claiming telegram fits that bill)

do they have any thoughts about the TeleMessage scandal? does the foundation think they should play a role in allowing for or creating signal encrypted apps that can be configured to be compliant for government employees?