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Eugene Alvin Villar 🇵🇭

My latest article for the Technology section of The Philippine Star is now up and I couldn’t help writing an intro/explainer about and because most Filipinos haven’t heard of @signalapp.

Also, after I submitted my article to my editor, I learned that several other outlets have put out their own explainers too! 😅

philstartech.com/opinion/2025/

Philstar Tech · The Signal leak and the pitfalls of security - Philstar TechUnless you’ve been completely offline (or not at all interested in American politics), you’ve likely heard about the massive blunder by President Trump’s administration, where top military and intelligence officials accidentally invited a critical journalist into a Signal group chat discussing airstrikes on Yemen’s Houthi rebels that started on March 15.
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Mar 26, 2025, 04:40 AM·Public
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@seav @signalapp suggest that you include the information that Signal does not collect metadata - a differentiator from the likes of Meta that uses the same E2EE algorithm as Signal, but Meta collects metadata.

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