The fact that you have is what gives you the very legitimacy you’re in the process of selling to Google & Facebook. https://twitter.com/moxie/status/733465560466391040 …
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After writing that I noticed that it never shipped and hasn't seen a commit for 9 months, so I guess it isn't.
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Can you tell me why you'd prefer that a billion WhatsApp users be communicating in plaintext right now then?
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WhatsApp could’ve implemented it themselves. They used you for your name/legitimacy in privacy. You’re basically Facebook/Google PR.
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There is absolutely zero chance it would have happened without us, no question about it. We approached them, not the other way around.
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Went in daily for over a year, wrote tons of code, and helped create a flawless transition for a billion users across eight platforms.
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You think we're just sitting around doing PR? We did all that while simultaneously building our own OSS app and shipping it weekly.
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Whisper and Signal are associated with respectful, privacy-focussed systems. Google and FB are using that to look better.
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