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Board Changes at Signal

by logic on 6/15/23, 8:54 PM with 70 comments

  • by getcrunk on 6/15/23, 11:36 PM

    I see some comments saying they are happy moxie is out. I for one am saddened.

    I trusted signal in part due to his persona. And his in your face attitude towards that one company that provided software to law enforcement that claimed to hack signal.

  • by frabbit on 6/16/23, 12:46 AM

    Katherine Maher? The US State Department definitely-not-a-spook one? The one that was at Wikipedia and "spent time in Syria and Lybia"?

    Sounds wonderful for a messaging system that is going to be definitely trusted not to be manipulated by the USA.

  • by bilal4hmed on 6/15/23, 11:29 PM

    One thing Id really like to see is cross OS transfer. I feel Im locked in to my OS because of Signal right now as Ill lose messages. There are some messages I dont want lost and sadly having them in signal is a bummer.

    This is where whatsapp just excels

  • by candiddevmike on 6/15/23, 11:01 PM

    With moxie gone, will signal remove the cryptocoin shit?

  • by dogecoinbase on 6/15/23, 11:01 PM

    Glad to hear Moxie's out. As a reminder, Signal didn't publish the source for their server-side from 20 April 2020 to 6 April 2021 [0] while they secretly added a cryptocurrency payment system to which Moxie was a paid technical advisor [1], which Moxie denied they were doing in January 2021 [2].

    0: https://www.androidpolice.com/2021/04/06/it-looks-like-signa... (source was published shortly after the publication of that article)

    1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26715013 (comment from founder of MobileCoin)

    2: https://www.theverge.com/22249391/signal-app-abuse-messaging...

  • by elektor on 6/15/23, 11:16 PM

    Does anyone have any insight on the new board members?

    Good for privacy?

  • by caycep on 6/15/23, 11:32 PM

    Wow, did not realize Moxie was doing something else...when did he step back?

  • by mariusseufzer on 6/15/23, 11:19 PM

    Maybe we’ll finally get a backup feature on iOS?

  • by Solvency on 6/15/23, 10:57 PM

    If nothing else, I've learned a man with the name "Moxie Marlinspike" exists today.

  • by signaluser on 6/15/23, 11:19 PM

    Seeing usage statistics, it seems that signal is dying slowly. It boomed during covid but almost no new chat is started there nowadays.