Sorry for the misclicked downvote (to the post I'm replying to). It is very plausible (from my rando perspective) thatq moxie's reaction was greater than it wo

Sorry for the misclicked downvote (to the post I'm replying to). It is very plausible (from my rando perspective) thatq moxie's reaction was greater than it would have been for some other badly done security. But it's also plausible that it's just frustrating to be working on something and then seeing a well-funded attempt to obliterate any good that you might be doing. Which is what Telegram was. Is it a "conflict of interest", if your interests are for secure messaging to become widely used, to attack those which are, thanks to their ineptitude and funding, a plausible threat to your goal? Taking the words "conflict of interest" literally, yes, but it's not an ulterior interest the way the phrase is usually applied. Telegram was also doing a really good job of pushing buttons, going off about how they had Math PhD's. Edit: Hold on, you're saying there was a conflict of interest, in the past, because he's working with WhatsApp now? Do you have any personal knowledge of the timeline here?