Moxie Marlinspike

@moxie-marlinspike · 10 positions · 1 change of mind · On ppll ↗

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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privacy 8

web3 is not on a path away from centralised platforms, and its privacy story is already below the internet’s low bar.
Handling a change of keys is not a backdoor; it is how public-key cryptography works, and interception stays detectable by the sender.

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cryptography 2

Handling a change of keys is not a backdoor; it is how public-key cryptography works, and interception stays detectable by the sender.
Self-hosted email will never be end-to-end encrypted, and federation is the reason.

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government 2

Legal change usually begins as lawbreaking, so perfectly effective enforcement would freeze a society in place.
When everyone is monitored and everyone breaks some obscure law, punishment stops being lawful and becomes purely selective.

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