Wrote some notes summarizing my first impressions of web3:
- Signal tried to use Instagram ads to display the data Facebook collects about you and sells access to. Facebook wasn't into the idea, and shut down our account instead: signal.org/blog/the-insta…
- Telegram is the most popular messenger in urban Ukraine. After a decade of misleading marketing and press, most ppl there believe it’s an “encrypted app” The reality is the opposite-TG is by default a cloud database w/ a plaintext copy of every msg everyone has ever sent/recvd.It's amazing to me that after all this time, almost all media coverage of Telegram still refers to it as an "encrypted messenger." Telegram has a lot of compelling features, but in terms of privacy and data collection, there is no worse choice. Here's how it actually works: 1/
- 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…
- It's amazing to me that after all this time, almost all media coverage of Telegram still refers to it as an "encrypted messenger." Telegram has a lot of compelling features, but in terms of privacy and data collection, there is no worse choice. Here's how it actually works: 1/
- Friend in California (unsuccessfully) trying to get a test for coronavirus. DPH: "Have you been to any countries experiencing an outbreak of coronavirus in the past two weeks?" Friend: "Yes, the USA."
- It's a new year! I've decided it's a good time to replace myself as the CEO of Signal:
- 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:
- First look at Apple/Google contact tracing framework: 1) Once a day, your device derives a new key ("daily tracing key"). 2) It uses that to derive a new "proximity ID" every time your device's bluetooth address changes (15min), which is broadcast to nearby BT sensors. 1/10
- If you've ever considered applying to work with us at Signal, now is a great time to get involved! We're just over here working on a plan to power the western hemisphere with the heat from our servers: signal.org/workworkwork/How it started vs how it's going 😅
- As the influx to Signal continues, huge props to the entire small non-profit team at @signalapp working late nights and weekends to keep Signal running, answer support inquiries, and keep making Signal better for everyone interested privacy and a different kind of tech.
- What the Kurds want from Turkey is so incredibly minimal at this point—to be able to speak their own language, have their own radio programs, teach their children about their culture. For this, Turkey is willing to cross into Syria and kill them all.
- I spent some time last spring contemplating the utopian fantasy of how to build a quiet electric leaf blower. After making a few prototypes, I now believe that another world is possible. A world where the leaf blower's shrill whine has been transformed into a gentle whoosh.
- 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…”
