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There's an idealogical collision course between safely offering usernames+financial transactions and maintaining an absolutist stance on encryption. Within min
by marketingtech 6y ago
There's an idealogical collision course between safely offering usernames+financial transactions and maintaining an absolutist stance on encryption.
Within minutes, you'll have people going by @ElonMusk and @JeffBezos running scams to millions of non tech-savvy users. Are you going to try to stop that in any way? Can you, while maintaining full encryption?
I can appreciate Moxie sticking to his guns, but he'll need a better plan than "we'll deal with the problem when it comes." if he doesn't want to get deplatformed by Apple/Google or face government scrutiny.
- kfriede 6y agoWould an alternative be to offer auto-generated usernames that you have one-shot to generate a password for and if you lose that password you're gone? Something like opposite-dwindling-zodiac, casino-smile-widget, or creative-crumpled-dismiss? If you choose to add a phone number as a recovery (and for contact finding) that's your optional choice.
- marketingtech 6y agoThere absolutely are mitigations from a technical standpoint, some with privacy trade-offs and some with UI trade-offs. But the key is to have those mitigations in place before you launch a feature with potential attack vectors. Moxie's statement in that article claims they have no plans to address it.
- waheoo 6y agoI'd quit my job if signal got deplatformed. They're not parler.