Profile of Moxie Marlinspike, CEO of Signal, as he defends centralization as a necessary condition for Signal's widespread adoption, and for its ease of use
we love seeing it take the spotlight. Signal will be the right tool for some people, but for those of you who want the highest level of security without having to put your phone number in a database, there's Session. https://www.newyorker.com/... @newyorker : .@annawiener profiles Moxie Marlinspike, the C.E.O. of Signal, the nonprofit end-to-end encrypted-messaging service that was founded on the premise that mass surveillance should be impossible. https://www.newyorker.com/... Yasha Levine / @yashalevine : Love this privacy scammer hagiography — which doesn't once mention that the anti-government anarchist hero at the center of the story worked with the State Department and a CIA spinoff to get his “privacy” app off the ground. https://www.newyorker.com/... Sarah Wilson / @_sarahwilson_ : I love this line from Moxie Marlinspike, founder of Signal: “Living in Venice is like living at the end of the world, the end of history. All the decisions have been made. This is the world we get.” Describes most affluent areas in the world now. https://ow.ly/... Steve Faktor / @ideafaktory : Aside from having a CEO whose name sounds like a fish that dances cabaret, there are 2 red flags about Signal, the private messaging app: all the permissions it requires & lack of decentralization. Through the app is open source, what happens on the server is unknown. https://twitter.com/...
Aside from having a CEO whose name sounds like a fish that dances cabaret, there are 2 red flags about Signal, the private messaging app: all the permissions it requires & lack of decentralization. Through the app is open source, what happens on the server is unknown. https://twi…
Privacy used to be in the shadows — we love seeing it take the spotlight. Signal will be the right tool for some people, but for those of you who want the highest level of security without having to put your phone number in a database, there's Session. https://www.newyorker.com/.…
I love this line from Moxie Marlinspike, founder of Signal: “Living in Venice is like living at the end of the world, the end of history. All the decisions have been made. This is the world we get.” Describes most affluent areas in the world now. https://ow.ly/...
.@annawiener profiles Moxie Marlinspike, the C.E.O. of Signal, the nonprofit end-to-end encrypted-messaging service that was founded on the premise that mass surveillance should be impossible. https://www.newyorker.com/...
Love this privacy scammer hagiography — which doesn't once mention that the anti-government anarchist hero at the center of the story worked with the State Department and a CIA spinoff to get his “privacy” app off the ground. https://www.newyorker.com/...