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Yeah you're not going to make a business out of it. Secure messaging is a big graveyard of companies.
by rapsey 3y ago
Yeah you're not going to make a business out of it. Secure messaging is a big graveyard of companies.
- weinzierl 3y agoAt least not a legal one...
- jazzyjackson 3y agoEven marketing to criminals is a tough sell, no reason to believe we weren't a 3 letter cutout: > An encrypted chat platform that catered to criminals is actually an FBI sting operation. > Since 2019, the FBI has been secretly operating Anom, a company that pretended to offer encrypted messaging to criminal organizations. In reality, the Anom app would relay to federal investigators a copy of every message sent. https://www.pcmag.com/news/fbi-sold-criminals-fake-encrypted-phones-that-actually-copied-their-messages https://www.pcmag.com/news/fbi-sold-criminals-fake-encrypted... (this is also in the TFC FAQ as why not to sell a device, trust is not solved by cryptography alone)
- rozab 3y agoThis has happened many, many times in various countries. At the end of the day I don't think anyone else in the space would be able to compete on price with the various 3 letter agencies
- rvnx 3y agoanother case: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crypto_AG https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crypto_AG
- fragmede 3y agoWickr was sold to AWS for an undisclosed amount of money, so we don't actually know if it's a graveyard or if it was a life-changing amount of money for the founders, or somewhere in between.
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