Seriously, Use Encrypted Messaging

Encrypted messaging is a godsend for mobile communications, whether you’re conscionable sending modular texts to your friends that you privation kept private, oregon engaging successful interactions that are amended kept concealed for information reasons. Apps similar Signal and Telegram connection users the quality to commercialized messages that tin beryllium work by lone the sender and the receiver. Of course, radical tin besides usage that privateness arsenic a mode to behaviour unsavory dealings without having to interest astir their communications getting exposed.

Encrypted messaging has been successful the quality for the past mates weeks, mostly due to the fact that of the apprehension of Telegram CEO Pavel Durov, who is being accused by the French authorities of failing to comply with instrumentality enforcements’ demands to assistance drawback immoderate radical who are utilizing the app for transgression activity. Durov’s apprehension besides casts a airy connected the rising illustration of Signal, a afloat encrypted messaging app that’s ever taken a stance against the postulation of its users’ data.

This week connected Gadget Lab, WIRED information writer Andy Greenberg joins america to speech astir however encrypted messaging works, what tin spell wrong, and however portion Telegram and Signal whitethorn look similar, the ways they run are different—and mightiness impact what makes them liable for what users stock connected its platforms.

Show Notes

Read Andy’s interrogation with Signal president Meredith Whittaker. Read Lily Hay Newman and Morgan Meeker’s reporting connected the arrest of Telegram’s laminitis and its broader criminal investigations. Follow each of WIRED’s sum of Signal and Telegram.

Recommendations

Andy recommends the memoir My Glorious Defeats: Hacktivist, Narcissist, Anonymous by Barrett Brown. Mike recommends taking a thrust successful a Waymo, conscionable to get an thought of the aboriginal of driverless cars that is coming. Lauren recommends The Ringer’s story astir the caller shot team, the Oakland Ballers.

Andy Greenberg tin beryllium recovered connected societal media @agreenberg.bsky.social. Lauren Goode is @LaurenGoode. Michael Calore is @snackfight@heads.social. Bling the main hotline astatine @GadgetLab. The amusement is produced by Boone Ashworth (@booneashworth). Our taxable euphony is by Solar Keys.

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