What Moxie Marlinspike thinks about crypto

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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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13 Jan 2017

Our readingShipping default end-to-end encryption to more than a billion people is to Facebook’s credit, whatever else it is criticised for.

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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.

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