Moxie Marlinspike Has a Plan to Reclaim Our Privacy  | The New Yorker

Moxie Marlinspike, the founder of the end-to-end encrypted messaging service Signal, is “trying to bring normality to the Internet.”

Save this story Save this story Walking down Abbot Kinney Boulevard, the retail strip in Venice, California, can feel like scrolling through Instagram. One afternoon this July, people sat at outdoor tables beneath drooping strings of fairy lights, sipping cocktails and spearing colorful, modestly dressed salads. The line for Salt & Straw, a venture-funded, “chef-driven” ice-cream shop, stretched up the block, and athleisure-clad twentysomethings photographed themselves eating waffle cones, fabric masks pulled down around their chins like turkey wattles. A month earlier, Abbot Kinney had become

saved by

• Alicia Guo
• Catherine Zhang
• Amir
• Jaclyn
• Srinidhi Krishnamurthy

related reading

• moral-fn.pdfweb.cs.ucdavis.edu
• The end of my childhoodvitalik.eth.limo
• Elon Musk’s Shadow Rule | The New Yorkernewyorker.com
• A Cypherpunk's Manifestoactivism.net
• Computers: Signal app boss threatens to withdraw from Europe | blue Newsbluewin.ch
• Signal Alums Reveal ‘Encrypted Spaces,’ a System for Making Private Collaboration Apps | WIREDwired.com
• The New Internet: Tailscale's Vision for the Future of Connectivitytailscale.com
• Proton Adds Proton Calendar, Proton Drive, and Proton VPN Encrypted Features | WIREDwired.com
• It Is Time to Move Beyond End-to-End Encryptionarvid.xyz
• Against the dark forestwrecka.ge
• Looking back at the Snowden revelations – A Few Thoughts on Cryptographic Engineeringblog.cryptographyengineering.com
• Bryan Lehrerbryanlehrer.com