At the RSA Conference, Adi Shamir criticized cryptocurrencies for enabling malware and failing to achieve their initial promise of decentralized finance. Ed Felten offered a more optimistic view, comparing the current situation to the early days of the internet. Whitfield Diffie expressed concerns about governments storing encrypted data for future decryption and the security of systems like Signal.
Signal is a cooperative game about understanding a strange creature by providing inputs called signals and deducing the secret rules to get the desired output. It is a puzzle and logic deduction game for 2 or more players, ages 10+.
In an interview with TechCrunch, Signal CEO Meredith Whittaker criticizes the media's obsession with AI-driven deepfakes, the encroaching surveillance state, and the concentration of power in the five main social media platforms. She also discusses the company's recent war of words with Elon Musk, Telegram's Pavel Durov, and OpenAI's leadership.
