moxie

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by moxie 11y ago
Marginal improvement in what sense? When considering privacy, Telegram is by far the worst option. They store the plaintext message history on the server of every message that every user has ever sent or received. Even if WhatsApp weren&#x2
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by moxie 11y ago
FYI, both WhatsApp and Telegram work the same way.
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by moxie 11y ago
> Thing is, this better be a really important case. Because if users migrate and stay on Telegram, it could be much harder for Brazilian courts to get records in the future. Why would it be harder? Telegram has the entire plaintext mess
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by moxie 11y ago
lol, yeah the problem is that it just never occurred to us that UX is important! Here's the situation: people hem and haw about Telegram's cryptography, but what we should really be talking about is that Telegram is not using end
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by moxie 11y ago
Millions disagree.
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by moxie 11y ago
That's a pretty big holiday wishlist. =) This is the world we live in: people do most of their communication on mobile devices running iOS or Android, use Chrome on the desktop, and expect contact discovery to be automatic in their so
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by moxie 11y ago
Signal's objective is to make mass surveillance impossible. Telegram stores the entire plaintext transcript of every user's entire conversation history server side by default, so if that's the objective, Telegram is defini
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by moxie 11y ago
If we were going to rank our priorities, they would be in this order: 1) Make mass surveillance impossible. 2) Stop targeted attacks against crypto nerds. It's not that we don't find #2 laudable, but optimizing for #1 takes preced
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by moxie 11y ago
For now! We're hiring, if you know anyone that wants to help us speed up iOS development: https://whispersystems.org/workworkwork/
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by moxie 11y ago
People tend to cite heartbleed as an example of how "open source" has no intrinsic security value. While I agree that something being "open source" does not automatically make it secure, I think that it does allow us to
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by moxie 11y ago
See my comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10500188
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by moxie 11y ago
See my comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10500188
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by moxie 11y ago
It seems like you don't want to install Google Play Services on your device. My sense is that this isn't because you find the communication over GCM to be inherently offensive (it's just a tickle, after all), but because you
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by moxie 11y ago
If we were going to rank our priorities, they would be in this order: 1) Make mass surveillance impossible. 2) Stop targeted attacks against crypto nerds. It's not that we don't find #2 laudable, but optimizing for #1 takes preced
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by moxie 11y ago
Open Whisper Systems • San Francisco • Full Time • ONSITE Open Whisper Systems is making private communication simple. Our technology is used by hundreds of millions of people, and everything we produce is open source. What it's like t
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Some sexist tropes in the Martian(medium.com)
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by moxie 11y ago
Open Whisper Systems • San Francisco • Full Time • ONSITE Open Whisper Systems is making private communication simple. Our technology is used by hundreds of millions of people, and everything we produce is open source. What it's like t
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by moxie 11y ago
Open Whisper Systems • San Francisco • Full Time • ONSITE Open Whisper Systems is making private communication simple. Our technology is used by hundreds of millions of people, and everything we produce is open source. What it's like t
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by moxie 11y ago
And for people who are interested in Open Whisper Systems and want to get involved, we're hiring! https://whispersystems.org/workworkwork/
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by moxie 11y ago
You'll find that this is true for every messenger on Android, since there is no way to detect someone uninstalling without unregistering. TextSecure has delivery receipts so you can see when your messages aren't being delivered, a
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by moxie 11y ago
I get a lot of credit for the stuff that Open Whisper Systems does, but it's not all me by a long shot. Trevor Perrin, Frederic Jacobs, Christine Corbett, Tyler Reinhard, Lilia Kai, Jake McGinty, and Rhodey Orbits are the crew that re
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by moxie 11y ago
Open Whisper Systems • San Francisco • Full Time • ONSITE Open Whisper Systems is making private communication simple. Our technology is used by hundreds of millions of people, and everything we produce is open source. What it's like t
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by moxie 11y ago
Try using libtextsecure instead of interacting with websockets directly. We publish artifacts, and while the API might change over time, if you stick with a versioned artifact you'll be good. http://open-whisper-systems.rea
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by moxie 11y ago
Open Whisper Systems ➡ San Francisco ➡ Full Time Open Whisper Systems is making private communication simple. Our technology is used by hundreds of millions of people, and everything we produce is open source. What it's like to work wi
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by moxie 11y ago
Open Whisper Systems ➡ San Francisco ➡ Full Time Open Whisper Systems is making private communication simple. Our technology is used by hundreds of millions of people, and everything we produce is open source. ★ Design Lead -- Help us shape
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by moxie 12y ago
If you didn't use the feature, you might have missed it, but we talked about its removal publicly for over a year. We also made many incremental changes over that year in order to phase it out so that it wasn't a sudden removal.
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by moxie 12y ago
It's easy to say "use bcrypt" or "use scrypt," but I think it's important to acknowledge the challenges of deploying those functions in large scale high performance environments. It's straightforward and e
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by moxie 12y ago
Open Whisper Systems ➡ San Francisco ➡ Full Time Open Whisper Systems is making private communication simple. Our technology is used by hundreds of millions of people, and everything we produce is open source. ★ Design Lead -- Help us shape
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by moxie 12y ago
It will still be possible to send encrypted messages, just over the internet rather than over SMS. This has been the default mode of operation for a while now, we're just disabling the old SMS mode that has been lingering for the past
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by moxie 12y ago
I'm a Signal/TextSecure contributor. There's been a lot of controversy over the Telegram encryption protocol, and any cryptographer that looks at it cringes. Beyond doubts with the protocol itself, I think the more important

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