Moxie Marlinspike
Cryptographer who created the Signal Protocol and founded Signal, the encrypted messenger whose protocol now protects messages in WhatsApp and Google Messages as well. He stepped down as Signal’s CEO in 2022 and writes occasionally at moxie.org.
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Their wordsPeople don’t want to run their own servers, and never will.
↗My first impressions of web3moxie.org 1st of 2 in this piece
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Their wordsI don’t think it’s on a trajectory to deliver us from centralized platforms, I don’t think it will fundamentally change our relationship to technology, and I think the privacy story is already below par for the internet (which is a pretty low bar!), but I also understand why nerds like me are excited to build for it.
↗My first impressions of web3moxie.org 2nd of 2 in this piece
- 5 years earlier
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Their wordsThe fact that WhatsApp handles key changes is not a “backdoor,” it is how cryptography works.
↗There is no WhatsApp 'backdoor'signal.org 1st of 2 in this piece
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Their wordsThere are many things to criticize Facebook for; running a product that deployed end-to-end encryption by default for over a billion people is not one of them.
↗There is no WhatsApp 'backdoor'signal.org 2nd of 2 in this piece
- 8 months earlier
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Their wordsNothing about any of the protocols we’ve developed requires centralization; it’s entirely possible to build a federated Signal Protocol-based messenger, but I no longer believe that it is possible to build a competitive federated messenger at all.
↗Reflections: The ecosystem is movingsignal.org 1st of 3 in this piece
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Their wordsSo while it’s nice that I’m able to host my own email, that’s also the reason why my email isn’t end-to-end encrypted, and probably never will be.
↗Reflections: The ecosystem is movingsignal.org 2nd of 3 in this piece
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Their wordsBy contrast, WhatsApp was able to introduce end-to-end encryption to over a billion users with a single software update.
↗Reflections: The ecosystem is movingsignal.org 3rd of 3 in this piece
- 3 years earlier
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Their wordsYou probably do have something to hide, you just don’t know it yet.
↗We Should All Have Something To Hidemoxie.org 1st of 3 in this piece
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Their wordsWhat’s often overlooked, however, is that these legal victories would probably not have been possible without the ability to break the law.
↗We Should All Have Something To Hidemoxie.org 2nd of 3 in this piece
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Their wordsPolice already abuse the immense power they have, but if everyone’s every action were being monitored, and everyone technically violates some obscure law at some time, then punishment becomes purely selective. Those in power will essentially have what they need to punish anyone they’d like, whenever they choose, as if there were no rules at all.
↗We Should All Have Something To Hidemoxie.org 3rd of 3 in this piece