SIGNAL JAM // EPISODE 006 // Privacy 101: Chat Apps and Email
Original Air Date: 2026-03-28
Wrapping up our first batch of Privacy 101 episodes, we discuss the need for encryption in our communications, metadata, and our recommendations. Later, we reflect on the show so far, what we’ve learned, and provide a glimpse of what’s to come in the weeks and months ahead.
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Updates:
• Closing out Privacy 101, for now.
• We’re working on a wiki!
• Threat model tool is temporarily delayed, but expected to be released within a few months.
In this episode:
Caesar Cipher // https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caesar_cipher
Symmetric Encryption // https://www.ibm.com/think/topics/symmetric-encryption
Asymmetric Encryption // https://www.cloudflare.com/learning/ssl/what-is-asymmetric-encryption/
Snowden Leaks // https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jun/06/us-tech-giants-nsa-data
Gmail Scanning // https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/06/26/534451513/google-says-it-will-no-longer-read-users-emails-to-sell-targeted-ads
iOS Default Encryption // https://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/27/technology/iphone-locks-out-the-nsa-signaling-a-post-snowden-era-.html
EFF on the years since Snowden’s leaks // https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/05/10-years-after-snowden-some-things-are-better-some-were-still-fighting
Pentagon Pizza Meter // https://www.euronews.com/culture/2025/06/06/what-is-the-pentagon-pizza-theory-eating-away-at-the-internet
‘We kill people based on metadata’ // https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kV2HDM86XgI&t=1052
WhatsApp Privacy Policy // https://www.whatsapp.com/legal/privacy-policy
FBI Lawful Access Document // https://propertyofthepeople.org/document-detail/?doc-id=21114562
Signal // https://signal.org/
SimpleX // https://simplex.chat/
Threema // https://threema.com/
Session // https://getsession.org/
Proton // https://proton.me/
Tuta // https://tuta.com/
PGP // https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pretty_Good_Privacy
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