Remember when Zoom bought Keybase?
Same energy. #cososec
WhatsApp Co-Founder Is the New Acting CEO of Signal
https://www.vice.com/en/article/4awamd/whatsapp-co-founder-brian-acton-signal-ceo
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Don't forget that Meta owns WhatsApp, and then it starts to smell even worse.
@voltronic I mean, he's been the primary funder and involved since day one. And he was with WhatsApp while it was independent longer than when owned by Facebook. (And WhatsApp has now been owned by FB longer since his departure than while he was there.)
I'm all for not trusting WhatsApp now - but his involvement in Signal isn't particularly a red flag. Or else it should have been all along.
@ehurtley
I actually didn't know about the earlier Signal involvement.
@voltronic @ehurtley I had forgotten about that until a few minutes ago as well. Thanks for the reminder!
Even the technical aspect of MobileCoin sounds not great.
"Put bluntly, the only way as a security professional you would endorse this as a valid "privacy coin", let alone push it out to your huge user base, is if you were faced with a dump-truck full of money."
@john_b @ehurtley
Any veracity to this?
https://www.coindesk.com/tech/2021/04/09/signal-founder-may-have-been-more-than-a-tech-adviser-to-mobilecoin/