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Moxie Marlinspike: The Coder Who Encrypted Your Texts
In the past decade, Moxie Marlinspike has squatted on an abandoned island, toured the U.S. by hopping trains, he says, and earned the enmity of government officials for writing software. Mr. Marlinspike created an encryption program that scrambles messages until they reach the intended reader. It’s so simple that Facebook Inc. ’s WhatsApp made it a standard feature for many of the app’s 800 million users.
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I find it a bit worrisome that Moxie's work is being publicized by the mainstream media.
In a nutshell, governments control the mainstream media, and don't want the masses to have access to encryption they can't break. So why would they publicize Whisper Systems assuming their encryption actually works?
I know, it's like "use this guys stuff, cause we totally haven't compromised it"