You're right, Fred doesn't work at Open Whisper Systems. He's a student at EPFL, and is doing a summer internship at Apple this year. Since the article mention

You're right, Fred doesn't work at Open Whisper Systems. He's a student at EPFL, and is doing a summer internship at Apple this year. Since the article mentions Signal, I think the author just wanted to make it clear that Fred's quotes come with a potential bias since he worked on Signal in the past. But we're hiring if you want to be quoted in future Motherboard articles on private messaging! =) https://whispersystems.org/workworkwork/ https://whispersystems.org/workworkwork/