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Moxie Marlinspike leaves encrypted-messaging app Signal:
Moxie Marlinspike, the co-founder and chief executive of encrypted-messaging app Signal, has resigned.
He blogged it was a "good time to replace myself as CEO" after working on Signal for over a decade.
Signal recently enabled crypto-currency payments within the app, which has concerned some users. Mr Marlinspike remains a board member of the Signal Foundation, while the board's executive chair, Brian Acton, becomes interim chief executive.
[...] Mr Marlinspike - whose real name is Matthew Rosenfeld - blogged he had always hoped to reach a point where Signal could "grow and sustain" beyond his involvement.
"I was writing all the Android code, was writing all of the server code, was the only person on call for the service, was facilitating all product development, and was managing everyone," he wrote. "I couldn't ever leave cell service, had to take my laptop with me everywhere in case of emergencies, and occasionally found myself sitting alone on the sidewalk in the rain late at night trying to diagnose a service degradation."
More than 40 million people now use Signal.
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(Score: 0, Troll) by aristarchus on Thursday January 13 2022, @08:37PM (5 children)
Could it have something to do with this? [abc7.com]
Common carrier status for encrypted insurrection comms? Or Complicity?
(Score: 2) by Frosty Piss on Thursday January 13 2022, @09:36PM (1 child)
What this tells me is that Signal either isn’t as secure as they say, or Signal has been cooperating with the DOJ.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 13 2022, @10:36PM
Or that they got the information some other way. Anything from spyware on the end user's device to getting people involved to talk.
(Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 14 2022, @12:54AM (1 child)
Neither. Endpoint security. The Oath Keepers are listed as a terrorist group. Their personnel have been infiltrated, and presumably some of their devices have also been compromised (though they'll use parallel construction to avoid having to reveal the tradecraft of the latter). But this isn't even that. This is info provided as part of a plea bargain. Someone opened their Signal history voluntarily.
There's nothing about cracking Signal or disclosures from Signal here. That would be a HUGE scoop and the reporter would NOT have let that one go.
Not to say that Signal is uncrackable (last I checked they hadn't moved entirely to post-quantum cryptography), just that if it has been cracked, this isn't the time and place that they'll reveal that.
The time and place would be if/when there's billions$ and/or national security on the line. Oath Keepers are a local security threat, not a national scale threat, at present.
(Score: -1, Spam) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 14 2022, @07:53PM
"The Oath Keepers are listed as a terrorist group. "
wtf are you talking about? The Jew rats at the SPLC? Cops swearing to abide by the fucking constitution is not terrorist unless you're a subversive communist jew trying to destroy america and the white race.
"Oath Keepers are a local security threat"
STFU, you stupid bitch. I haven't seen them doing anything and if they did it would be for the better.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 14 2022, @05:45AM
At the risk of turning this all into a discussion of Orange Man, if the people who were supposedly acting at his behest were complaining that he didn't do anything, isn't that pretty good evidence that he wasn't involved?
That doesn't mean he handled the situation well, or that he bears no responsibility for it. But it does seem to be a good indication that he's not actually guilty of anything.