Moxie Marlinspike Has Stepped Down as CEO of Signal (theverge.com) 29
Signal founder Moxie Marlinspike is stepping down as CEO of the company, he announced in a blog post on Monday. Executive chairman Brian Acton will serve as acting CEO until a replacement is found. From a report: "Every day, I'm struck by how boundless Signal's potential looks, and I want to bring in someone with fresh energy and commitment to make the most of that," Marlinspike wrote. "I now feel very comfortable replacing myself as CEO based on the team we have." The company has met with several CEO candidates "over the last few months," Marlinspike wrote, but the search remains ongoing. Founded in 2014, Signal has grown into one of the most trusted and robust apps for encrypted messaging. The service has more than 40 million monthly users and is regularly recommended in security guides. Established as a nonprofit, the company is not supported by advertising or app sales, instead relying on donations and a recently launched sustainer program.
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He's also the biggest problem with Signal. Now hopefully they will allow interoperability with other apps, so we can choose a better Signal client.
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He is the biggest problem with Signal, but I think a corporate board selecting their ideal replacement CEO is only going to make Signal worse. They'll be going for anything that increases short-term profits and that will mean definitely no interoperability and maybe inline advertisements or something heinous like that.
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Which places him very firmly inside the group that often changes their names to avoid negative connotations that their real last names evoke. Because people with those last names often evoke negative feelings, which are always totally unjustified of course.
If you want to see a list of those last names, look no further than the list of the 100 worst landlords in New York City.
https://landlordwatchlist.com/... [landlordwatchlist.com]
Wherever similar lists exist, the last names look similar. Discrimination, I'm sure.
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http://www.findstrippernames.c... [findstrippernames.com]
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It's real. There is definitely a company named 'Signal'. Wait until you hear what Google and Facebook changed their names to.
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Going adventuring again perhaps (Score:1)
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Sending a message (Score:2)
Seems a bit like a warrant canary.
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Or he knows something about the health of the company that we don't, and is getting out while he can.
Or just burned out, like me (Score:2)
I left a company I had founded, simply because I was ready to do something new. What he said also reminds me of me at that time - I was aware that someone else might do better at *running* the company. I liked creating new companies, not running established ones.
I still owned the company for several years after that, but wasn't employed there.
Second the CEO that strips metoo features (Score:2)
Signal is fabulous at simplicity. It just works. Then the QR code dependency, images, video metoo features trashed what was simple secure and functional.
Pick non-gain of function CEO to get back to Signal without looking like a Facebook metoo runnerup
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This, in a nutshell. As a user of the platform (who uses the Signal Boost function, which is only fair), I'm not interested in growth, or monetization.
I started using Signal back in the TextSecure/RedPhone days because it worked well, and was a solid way to send texts on Android with end to end encryption. To boot, it worked well as a replacement SMS application, storing all SMS history encrypted.
Signal doesn't need to go the Telegram route or try to compete with WhatsApp. It needs to stick to what it do
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Nation-state actors are the whole point of Signal, encryption and individual privacy. Assassination of Jamal Khashoggi is what happened to journalism’s fourth estate independence and investigative reporting after that kowtowing to nation-states.
Turkey is latest example of democracy in a compromised power acquiescence to nation-state authority. Under appreciated is the security architecture Signal refused to compromise early in its development. No need to pander it away for sake of retail bragging righ
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I presume someone finally had the balls to point out that having the CEO of the product be the guy behind the cryptocurrency that just got built into the product over user objections was just asking for government regulation.
https://www.coindesk.com/tech/... [coindesk.com]
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I hear that Stephen Elop is available.