What Moxie Marlinspike thinks about government
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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2 dated positions, 2013, in their own words. Our reading of what Moxie Marlinspike has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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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.
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