Best Infosec-Related Long Reads of the Week, 7/29/23
Best Infosec-Related Long Reads of the Week, 7/29/23
How Signal became the go-to privacy app, LAC nations need cybersecurity support, Hunting down a Twitter scammer, Cyber insurers need capital access, Mass. push to ban cop facial recognition use
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How Signal Walks the Line Between Anarchism and Pragmatism
Programmer and writer Kai Ye in Wired tells the story of how Signal, a tiny organization with virtually no marketing budget, has become synonymous with private communications and how Moxie Marlinspike, the charismatic face of Signal, became the driving force for end-to-end encrypted communications.
RELEASED AFTER WHATSAPP set the standards for messaging, Signal’s problem has always been how to keep up with its competition—a fine dance between mimicry (so as to seem familiar to new users) and innovation (to poach users from its competitors). Signal started off by cop…
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