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Moxie Marlinspike

@moxie
44 posts
2026-01-14
I've been building Confer: private AI chat where your conversations are end-to-end encrypted so that only you can access them. It's still new, but I've been using it every day and beta testing it with friends. Let me know what's missing! https://confer.to/...
2026-01-14 View on X
Ars Technica

A look at Confer, an open-source AI assistant project from Signal creator Moxie Marlinspike that is designed to provide end-to-end encryption for AI chats

Moxie Marlinspike—the pseudonym of an engineer who set a new standard for private messaging with the creation of the Signal Messenger …

It has been cool to see so many people using Confer over the past few weeks, and I've been working to keep scaling up the backend! I remember the early Signal 24hr sustained traffic milestones (1 msg/sec, 10/s, 100/s, ...) and its fun to see traffic climb through those again🥹
2026-01-14 View on X
Ars Technica

A look at Confer, an open-source AI assistant project from Signal creator Moxie Marlinspike that is designed to provide end-to-end encryption for AI chats

Moxie Marlinspike—the pseudonym of an engineer who set a new standard for private messaging with the creation of the Signal Messenger …

2026-01-13
I've been building Confer: private AI chat where your conversations are end-to-end encrypted so that only you can access them. It's still new, but I've been using it every day and beta testing it with friends. Let me know what's missing! https://confer.to/...
2026-01-13 View on X
Ars Technica

A look at Confer, an open-source AI assistant project from Signal creator Moxie Marlinspike that is designed to provide end-to-end encryption for AI chats

Moxie Marlinspike—the pseudonym of an engineer who set a new standard for private messaging with the creation of the Signal Messenger …

2025-03-25
There are so many great reasons to be on Signal. Now including the opportunity for the vice president of the United States of America to randomly add you to a group chat for coordination of sensitive military operations. Don't sleep on this opportunity...
2025-03-25 View on X
The Atlantic

Trump officials accidentally added The Atlantic's EIC to a Signal group chat about the US' Houthi war plans; Signal is not approved for sharing classified info

U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat about upcoming military strikes in Yemen.  I didn't think it could be real.

2024-08-27
This could get crazy if true. Telegram messages are not encrypted. France is trying to arrest the CEO of a Russian team that has plaintext access to every message the French president has ever sent or received.. “Macron has been a Telegram user since...” https://www.politico.eu/...
2024-08-27 View on X
New York Times

French prosecutors: Pavel Durov's arrest is part of a probe “against person unnamed” into CSAM, drug sales, and more on the app and not working with authorities

A case was opened last month to investigate child pornography, drug sales, fraud and other criminal activities on the platform.

2024-08-26
@micsolana The challenge with this story is that Durov is a fraud and a liar. It's totally possible for that to be true *and* for Europe to be the forefront of global tyranny, but given the former it might be worth waiting a sec to read the complaint
2024-08-26 View on X
Politico

French President Emmanuel Macron says the government was not involved in the arrest of Telegram CEO Pavel Durov and “this is in no way a political decision”

French president condemns “false information” as Pavel Durov's detention in Paris triggers global outcry.

@micsolana The challenge with this story is that Durov is a fraud and a liar. It's totally possible for that to be true *and* for Europe to be the forefront of global tyranny, but given the former it might be worth waiting a sec to read the complaint
2024-08-26 View on X
Reuters

Sources: Telegram CEO Pavel Durov was arrested in France as part of a probe into Telegram allegedly allowing a range of crimes due to a lack of moderation

Related by education: Saint Petersburg State University BBC : Telegram CEO Pavel Durov arrested at French airport Jones Hayden / Politico : Telegram CEO reportedly arrested at Fren...

2024-08-25
@micsolana The challenge with this story is that Durov is a fraud and a liar. It's totally possible for that to be true *and* for Europe to be the forefront of global tyranny, but given the former it might be worth waiting a sec to read the complaint
2024-08-25 View on X
Reuters

Sources: Telegram CEO Pavel Durov was arrested in France as part of a probe into allegedly allowing a range of crimes due to a lack of moderators on the app

Pavel Durov, the Russian-born billionaire founder and owner of the Telegram messaging app, was arrested at Le Bourget airport outside Paris shortly …

2022-01-11
@matthew_d_green There's not really any way to make news like this “unsudden.” I've been building Signal towards this for a long time & been talking w/ candidates for a while. I'm sharing publicly now to help w/ the search, and transitioning out to focus on it w/ more time bc it's important.
2022-01-11 View on X
Signal Blog

Signal CEO Moxie Marlinspike steps down; WhatsApp co-founder Brian Acton will act as the interim CEO as the search for a permanent replacement begins

It's a new year, and I've decided it's a good time to replace myself as the CEO of Signal.  —  I have now been working on Signal for almost a decade.

It's a new year! I've decided it's a good time to replace myself as the CEO of Signal: https://signal.org/...
2022-01-11 View on X
Signal Blog

Signal CEO Moxie Marlinspike steps down; WhatsApp co-founder Brian Acton will act as the interim CEO as the search for a permanent replacement begins

It's a new year, and I've decided it's a good time to replace myself as the CEO of Signal.  —  I have now been working on Signal for almost a decade.

2022-01-10
Wrote some notes summarizing my first impressions of web3: https://moxie.org/...
2022-01-10 View on X
r/ethereum on Reddit

Ethereum co-founder responds: “the properly authenticated decentralized blockchain world is coming”, but is slowed by “limited technical resources and funding”

I've been thinking about Matt Mullenweg's response to Brian Armstrong's response … Rick Webb / Webb Chatham Report : Good morning. Hello. How are you? #562 Cooper Midroni / Future ...

2022-01-09
Wrote some notes summarizing my first impressions of web3: https://moxie.org/...
2022-01-09 View on X
r/ethereum on Reddit

Ethereum co-founder responds: “the properly authenticated decentralized blockchain world is coming”, but is slowed by “limited technical resources and funding”

The word “server” imo is not very useful in the blockchain context; it combines together a bundle of concepts that are best treated separately.

2022-01-08
Wrote some notes summarizing my first impressions of web3: https://moxie.org/...
2022-01-08 View on X
Moxie Marlinspike

How Web3 apps and wallets inevitably depend on centralized services like OpenSea, Infura, and Alchemy, which don't even provide authenticated responses

Despite considering myself a cryptographer, I have not found myself particularly drawn to “crypto.”  I don't think I've ever actually said the words …

2021-11-04
Kind of amazing this was only 3 years. I think everyone would have assumed “MS acquires GitHub” was the end for GitHub, but in many ways @natfriedman made it the beginning. Can't think of any other acquisition that yielded such a dramatic and immediate trajectory of improvement. https://twitter.com/...
2021-11-04 View on X
TechCrunch

GitHub CEO Nat Friedman is stepping down on November 15; Thomas Dohmke, who became chief product officer in August, will take over as CEO

GitHub CEO Nat Friedman is stepping down from his role on November 15 to become the Chairman Emeritus of the Microsoft-owned service.

2021-04-23
A few months ago Cellebrite announced that they would begin parsing data from Signal in their extraction tools. It seems they're not doing that very carefully. Exploiting vulnerabilities in Cellebrite's software, from an app's perspective: https://signal.org/...
2021-04-23 View on X
VICE

Signal's CEO says he analyzed a Cellebrite device, used to extract data from phones, that fell off a truck, and it is full of easily exploitable security flaws

2021-04-22
A few months ago Cellebrite announced that they would begin parsing data from Signal in their extraction tools. It seems they're not doing that very carefully. Exploiting vulnerabilities in Cellebrite's software, from an app's perspective: https://signal.org/...
2021-04-22 View on X
VICE

Signal's CEO says he analyzed a Cellebrite device, used to extract data from phones, that fell off a truck, and it is full of easily exploitable security flaws

One of the biggest encrypted chat apps in the world just showed how a device used to decrypt messages can be hacked and tampered with. Source: Signal Blog .

2020-05-17
Now that Giphy has been acquired by FB, many have reached out to ask whether we should be concerned about Giphy search in Signal. Signal already uses a privacy preserving approach to prevent gif search providers from receiving user data: https://signal.org/...
2020-05-17 View on X
Protocol

John Borthwick, one of Giphy's early investors and board members, describes how the Facebook deal came about and says talks began in late March

@ow https://onezero.medium.com/... https://twitter.com/... @vivekxk : 1/5 Seems like the Giphy deal is strategically great for FB and probably gave Giphy the lifeline it needed. FB...

2020-05-16
Now that Giphy has been acquired by FB, many have reached out to ask whether we should be concerned about Giphy search in Signal. Signal already uses a privacy preserving approach to prevent gif search providers from receiving user data: https://signal.org/...
2020-05-16 View on X
OneZero

Facebook's purchase of Giphy gives FB insight into how and where gifs are shared outside of its own apps, including device IDs and keystrokes in Giphy tools

GIPHY joins Facebook's data collection arsenal  —  Facebook announced on Friday that it will buy Giphy, a popular GIF search engine …

2020-04-13
So it takes BTLE privacy a ~step back. I don't see why all of the existing beacon tracking tech wouldn't incorporate this into their stacks. At that point adtech (at minimum) probably knows who you are, where you've been, and that you are covid+.
2020-04-13 View on X
The Verge

Apple says COVID-19 contact tracing apps can include duration of proximity when deciding what is a proximity event, potentially limiting false positive pings

Surveillance and the pandemic: it doesn't have to be a nightmare Sergio De Simone / InfoQ : Google and Apple Jointly Working on Contact Tracing for iOS and Android Samantha Wiley /...

So it takes BTLE privacy a ~step back. I don't see why all of the existing beacon tracking tech wouldn't incorporate this into their stacks. At that point adtech (at minimum) probably knows who you are, where you've been, and that you are covid+.
2020-04-13 View on X
Light Blue Touchpaper

A list of issues that make contact tracing an impractical solution in the real world, from trolling others to cheating to insufficient adoption

There have recently been several proposals for pseudonymous contact tracing, including from Apple and Google.