You&#x27;re right, Fred doesn&#x27;t work at Open Whisper Systems. He&#x27;s a student at EPFL, and is doing a summer internship at Apple this year.<p>Since the article mentions Signal, I think the author just wanted to make it clear that Fred&#x27;s quotes come with a potential bias since he worked on Signal in the past.<p>But we&#x27;re hiring if you want to be quoted in future Motherboard articles on private messaging! =)<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;whispersystems.org&#x2F;workworkwork&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;whispersystems.org&#x2F;workworkwork&#x2F;</a>