Signal’s CEO Steps Down Just As the App Starts Allowing Crypto Trades

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🗓️ 13 January 2022

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Signal, the app, is synonymous with security. The end-to-end encrypted messaging platform is a go-to for discerning people who want to keep their communications private. Just remember to turn on the vanishing messages feature. But it’s CEO is stepping down. Moxie Marlinspike is out and Whatsapp’s Brian Acton is in.

Motherboard staff writer Joseph Cox is on the show this week to talk to us about the changes at Signal, the history of end-to-end encryption, and what Marlinspike thinks of web3. It’s also the subject of his article, WhatsApp Co-Founder Is the New Acting CEO of Signal.

Cox sticks around for Cypher where we discuss the incredible news that marijuanna may be able to help prevent COVID-19, why PS5 restock accounts are helping people find COVID-19 tests, and how someone scraped massive amounts of personal data from a database used by private investigators.

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0:00.0	Tannan, it's got the code it's going to launch.
0:10.4	It's a unit system.
0:12.8	I know this.
0:14.8	It's all the files of the whole park.
0:17.0	It tells her everything.
0:18.7	Sir, he's uploading the virus.
0:21.5	Eagle one.
0:22.3	The package is being delivered.
0:25.3	Hello out there in cyberspace.
0:27.6	Signal, the app, is synonymous with security.
0:31.2	The end-to-end encrypted messaging platform is a go-to for the discerning people who want to keep their communications private.
0:38.1	Just remember to turn off that vanishing messages feature that gets a lot of people in the end.
0:42.6	But its CEO is stepping down.
0:44.9	Moxie Marlin Spike is out and WhatsApp's Brian Acton is in.
0:50.3	With us today on cyber to sort all this out is Motherboard staff writer Joseph Cox.
0:55.6	The ShakeUp is the subject of his new piece at Motherboard.
0:59.1	WhatsApp co-founder is the new acting CEO of Signal.
1:02.5	I'm Matthew Galt.
1:03.9	And this is Cyber.
1:06.0	How are you doing today, J.C.?
1:08.0	Hey, I'm all good. Yourself?
1:10.6	I'm doing all right. Getting back into the swing of things, this is our first live cyber.
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