from the started-dating-carmen-san-diego? dept.
Moxie Marlinspike was a coveted speaker at security conferences. He uncovered elementary flaws in SSL certificate repudiation, posited flaws in SSH, and co-authored a specification for certificate pinning. However, after the acquisition of his startup by Twitter in Nov 2011, appearances and blog posts become significantly more sparse. With the exception of one post in Feb 2015, the blog has been unchanged since Dec 2013. Moxie's organization has released a succession of libraries and applications but Moxie seems to maintain a very low profile.
takyon: cafebabe wrote:
Likewise, Moxie's 42,800 followers on Twitter have received nothing since Jun 2013. After leaving Twitter,
Marlinspike's Twitter account has been active in December 2015. The pinned tweet is from June 2013. He also visited Russia in December.
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 05 2016, @11:20AM
My guess is this, [wikipedia.org] using this [youtube.com] to do this. [youtube.com]
(Score: 5, Insightful) by wonkey_monkey on Friday February 05 2016, @12:50PM
Unless there's reason to be concerned or an interesting story behind it all (neither of which appear to be the case, otherwise I assume mention would have been made), I'm not really sure why it's anyone business but his own. "Man fails to tweet or blog" is not a news story.
Maybe he's had more than enough of his 15 minutes of fame, and has enough money "after the acquisition of his startup by Twitter" that he's out there living the good life, sitting on a beach, earning twenny percent. I should be so lucky...
systemd is Roko's Basilisk
(Score: 2) by Gravis on Friday February 05 2016, @12:56PM
earning twenny percent
that would mean he's a fool who should have held out for at least twenty percent!
(Score: 3, Informative) by Webweasel on Friday February 05 2016, @03:47PM
For those of us that have read his blog he could be:
Somewhere at the bottom of an ocean.
More likely on top of an ocean somewhere enjoying sailing.
Living in a squat, because fuck capitalism.
Riding the back of a train again, fuck capitalism.
The guy was about as anarchist as you can get.
Was quite a surprise to watch him sell out over and over again over the last few years.
I guess we all grow up huh?
Honestly? I expect to find him in Belize taking drugs with John McAfee. (Actually, I have no idea if he's a user. From his writing, probably not.)
Priyom.org Number stations, Russian Military radio. "You are a bad, bad man. Do you have any other virtues?"-Runaway1956
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 05 2016, @07:08PM
When you are at the bottom it is easy to criticize the top. When you are at the top you are not going to rock the boat...
(Score: 5, Interesting) by SixGunMojo on Friday February 05 2016, @01:13PM
Due to his work in crypto communications, and the fact that he is probably several orders of magnitude more interesting to your favorite $TLA than your average digital paranoid ( aka soylentals :) ), my guess is he is practicing good op-sec and keeping his public digital mouth shut. He does seem to be slightly more active on the Open Whisper System's blog though.
(Score: 5, Interesting) by joshuajon on Friday February 05 2016, @02:06PM
And that right there is the answer, folks. He's deeply involved in Open Whisper Systems [whispersystems.org] which has published cross platform applications for encrypted voice and SMS communications. If you read the ominous final blog post mentioned in TFA you'll see that he was hinting towards this work. He's not disappeared by any stretch, but rather appears to have been simply focused on making something truly innovative and polished.
(Score: 2) by choose another one on Saturday February 06 2016, @03:57PM
And quite possibly under N-D-f***ing-A(s)
Sometimes there is a choice between "get involved in something secret but maybe really interesting and lucrative" and "carry on posting everything you do on the internet".
(Score: 5, Informative) by opinionated_science on Friday February 05 2016, @01:24PM
Perhaps he is too busy patching software to worry about social media?
He's been active on github...
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Grayson on Friday February 05 2016, @02:41PM
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 05 2016, @03:47PM
So, do you think the irony is lost on these certain self-proclaimed "privacy advocates" making a fuss because some guy isn't being public enough for them?
(Score: 2) by Webweasel on Friday February 05 2016, @03:51PM
Considering Moxie Marlinspike is not his real name...
I don't half wonder how he has managed to keep his real name off of the internet.
How do you get to be Head of security of a company (Twitter) without your real name?
Though, ofc all we have is his blog and news reports about him.
Hard to separate the truth from fiction.
Priyom.org Number stations, Russian Military radio. "You are a bad, bad man. Do you have any other virtues?"-Runaway1956
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 05 2016, @05:00PM
You know, privacy isn't only about having things to hide (implies a need) but can also simply be not wanting random strangers to know the details of your life.
(Score: 2, Informative) by mverwijs on Friday February 05 2016, @07:16PM
According to his comments on Hackernews [1] he's just fine.
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=moxie [ycombinator.com]