> Marlinspike is the C.E.O. of Signal, the end-to-end encrypted messaging service, which he launched in 2014; he is also a cryptographer, a hacker, a shipwright, and a licensed mariner.
What's all the hype about Signal? It's a bad application.
Let's see. Install it. Oh, it starts with a screen about Terms and confidentiality. But... why does Signal get me to agree to things if it's so much about privacy? Are they... reading our chats?
OK, next. Oh, it needs access to Contacts and Media to improve communications. Right -- because nothing like that sweet social graph. But I can skip this one.
Oh, now it wants my phone number!
Experiment complete. Let's uninstall this app.
I fail to see how this is any better than Whatsapp.
> Marlinspike is the C.E.O. of Signal, the end-to-end encrypted messaging service, which he launched in 2014; he is also a cryptographer, a hacker, a shipwright, and a licensed mariner.
What's all the hype about Signal? It's a bad application.
Let's see. Install it. Oh, it starts with a screen about Terms and confidentiality. But... why does Signal get me to agree to things if it's so much about privacy? Are they... reading our chats?
OK, next. Oh, it needs access to Contacts and Media to improve communications. Right -- because nothing like that sweet social graph. But I can skip this one.
Oh, now it wants my phone number!
Experiment complete. Let's uninstall this app.
I fail to see how this is any better than Whatsapp.