Submitted 11 months ago by GreyTechnician@lemm.ee to privacyguides@lemmy.one
Good luck finding recent text documents; I don’t think they’re hiding them, and I don’t think their salaries are particularly unreasonable compared to other tech companies (ahem Mozilla), but I’d love to see something more up to date now that Moxie is no longer with the company.
Who is Moxie?
Moxie Marlinspike, the crypto(as in cryptography)-anarchist who was pretty foundational in both creating Signal, and served as the CEO before resigning.
I have mixed feelings about him, but because he performed a dual role in the company, I’m just curious what those balance sheets look like without him being a significant contributor anymore.
he’s the creator and a former CEO of Signal.
CriticalMiss@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I understand that this goes against the nature of what signal believes in. But in my opinion the only way forward for signal is to license their code under the AGPL and offer the big tech companies that rely on their encryption to purchase a custom license. The other messaging apps will use signal’s protocol anyway, may as well make them pay the running costs.
Poutinetown@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
But the protocol has already been published and there’s not much changes needed (except maybe the quantum layer?). Charging a custom license would only push the others to develop a different protocol, one that might not be as private compared to Signal.
LWD@lemm.ee 11 months ago
FWIW this has already happened, with WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger.