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Just How Secure Is Signal? || Tech Field Day News Rundown: March 26, 2025
Manage episode 473552018 series 2134755
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This week has been a big one for messaging privacy. The news broke on Monday that the Editor-in-Chief for The Atlantic magazine was accidentally added to a Signal group where members of the US government were talking about highly classified military actions. The report kicked off a firestorm of Congressional hearings about the nature of data sharing and privacy for not only government officials but members of the defense and intelligence community. This has also raised questions about the way that those same officials will often circumvent policy to facilitate communications. While the nature of the group and their discussion topic is highly political in nature let's focus on the communications aspect. Why did they use Signal? How can we be sure it's safe? And what does this mean for government agencies that still want to create backdoors into secure protocols? This and more on the Tech Field Day News Rundown.
Time Stamps:
- 1:13 - Employers target engineers with LLM skills
- 4:09 - Google Acquires Wiz for $32 Billion after Previous Offer Falls Through
- 8:33 - AI Applications are putting cloud workloads at risk
- 12:09 - SoftBank to Acquire Ampere
- 16:47 - Cloud FinOps is driving application repatriation
- 23:27 - Dynamo is the NVIDIA operating system for your AI Factory
- 27:16 - Just How Secure Is Signal?
Follow our hosts Tom Hollingsworth, Alastair Cooke, and Stephen Foskett.
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#Rundown, #cybersecurity, #AI, @TechFieldDay, @NetworkingNerd, @DemitasseNZ, @NVIDIA, @Softbank, @Google, @AmpereComputing, @Wiz_io,
330 episodes
Manage episode 473552018 series 2134755
For shownotes, head to the episode website post
This week has been a big one for messaging privacy. The news broke on Monday that the Editor-in-Chief for The Atlantic magazine was accidentally added to a Signal group where members of the US government were talking about highly classified military actions. The report kicked off a firestorm of Congressional hearings about the nature of data sharing and privacy for not only government officials but members of the defense and intelligence community. This has also raised questions about the way that those same officials will often circumvent policy to facilitate communications. While the nature of the group and their discussion topic is highly political in nature let's focus on the communications aspect. Why did they use Signal? How can we be sure it's safe? And what does this mean for government agencies that still want to create backdoors into secure protocols? This and more on the Tech Field Day News Rundown.
Time Stamps:
- 1:13 - Employers target engineers with LLM skills
- 4:09 - Google Acquires Wiz for $32 Billion after Previous Offer Falls Through
- 8:33 - AI Applications are putting cloud workloads at risk
- 12:09 - SoftBank to Acquire Ampere
- 16:47 - Cloud FinOps is driving application repatriation
- 23:27 - Dynamo is the NVIDIA operating system for your AI Factory
- 27:16 - Just How Secure Is Signal?
Follow our hosts Tom Hollingsworth, Alastair Cooke, and Stephen Foskett.
Follow Tech Field Day on LinkedIn, on X/Twitter, on Bluesky, and on Mastodon.
#Rundown, #cybersecurity, #AI, @TechFieldDay, @NetworkingNerd, @DemitasseNZ, @NVIDIA, @Softbank, @Google, @AmpereComputing, @Wiz_io,
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