Moxie Marlinspike, the founder of the signal for sending messages, ridiculed the United States Vice Vance Vance for “accidentally adding” journalists to the official group chat and used it as a way to promote more users.
The signal grabbed the subtitles this month after the journalist said he was mistakenly added to the official group chat discussing American military movements in Yemen. The incident brought several officials under fire and started a debate on safe communication means for official purposes.
“I don’t sleep on this occasion…” says Moxie Marlinspike to the user
“There are so many great reasons to be a signal.
“You don’t sleep on this occasion …” he added and funnyly attracted more potential customers to download and use a signal application.
In particular, this is the first contribution of Moxie Marlinkspike on the platform in three months (from 10 December 2024) after responding to the question of 8 March and asked him about the last presentation “how technology destroyed my heroes and why he would never be born”.
Who is Moxie Marlinspike? More about the signal…
The signal was launched by more than 10 years back by an entrepreneur marked only as Moxie Marlinspike. He created the application by merge two existing applications with open source code – one for voice calls and the other for text messages. The signal itself is also open source.
Moxie Marlinspike had previously held the position of the Product Security on Twitter and left after the sale of its mobile security on the microblog platform.
The non -profit signaling foundation was established in 2018 “without advertisers or investors, which only maintained and appreciate it” according to the website. The Foundation Council has five members, including co -founder WhatsApp Brian ACTON, who donated $ 50 million to establish a foundation.
What happened to the error of chatting a signal group of an American official?
Atlantic editor -in -chief Jeffrey Goldberg claimed that he was mistakenly added to the US defense officials chat hours before the strike on Yemen, ordered by US President Donald Trump.
The US National Security Council in response to claims said that the text chain issued by Godlberg “seems to be authentic” and added that they deal with the error occurred.
Meredith Whittaker, who advocates the safety of his application, also took the signal to X and said, “The signal is a gold standard in private communications.”
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