If you watch the video - its explained starting at 1:13, Moxie built it himself: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPRi7mAGp7I

She likes putting guests on the hot seat.

Why is this interview happening inside a sauna?

It's his personal sauna. He built it himself.

https://www.instagram.com/p/DNV-qUfPZJ0/?hl=en

Right? If they're just chatting this should be happening in a jacuzzi with nice glasses of milk 🍼 👍

Somehow all these years I thought that Marlinspike is either Swedish or Finnish, so the sauna would be on brand.

Why not? I thought it was een interesting choice ;-P

for the thumbnail :)

Like in a sauna you should be completely exposed or something

To me, that is just clickbait.

Build sauna, host interview in sauna, sauna is tax writeoff

No windows, therefore quiet, and good acoustics.

Random mention of Matrix because I feel i should

how much data do the FBI get from telegram? do you think the russian owner (who got arrested in france for refusing to make changes demanded of him by glowing authorities) is very likely to give any of your info over to american 3 letter agencies?

There's a commonly used Russian metaphor "to not see the forest behind the trees".

What you are calling a device is in fact a system. It's a local system, that you are carrying in your hand, but it's functioning due to a very complex global system which is not. That device in itself is like a 1960s' town in complexity. In itself, but there's also the global system.

And these are a result of quite a lot of people employed by various organizations with hierarchies and dependencies. And most of the power in those organizations doesn't want you to have privacy and autonomy as much and when you want. If you want those, you should produce your own hardware and everything above it. Or build organizations interested in your full privacy and autonomy which will do that. It's about structure, so just creating a few of them (a goal hardly reachable in itself) with manifests saying "we want to be good" won't change anything.

So, if you were wondering why contemporaries of Stalin's regime were reluctant to divorce it with Marxism and call it something else, - that's similar to this. They really wanted to believe there's a Marxist superpower, just like some people wanted to believe Google is a good corporation, and before that some people wanted to believe Apple is a counterculture corporation, and so on. And, at various moments in time and space, in various dimensions, sometimes these were. Just like in some ways the British Empire was really bringing civilization to the world.

The more life and diversity there is, the likelier we are to have good things. That doesn't mean we'll ever have full privacy, full autonomy, fully civilized, peaceful and honorable world, and so on. We won't.

its the sauna

Raising money for Signal with OnlyFans

A floating sauna. He built this himself.

https://www.instagram.com/p/DNV-qUfPZJ0/?hl=en

It fails to include a libre software license text file.

I don't think this really makes sense as the leading point. More like "It's run by Meta and who knows what kind of backdoor they put in"

Yeah, it uses the signal protocol, but who's to say they don't have a secret member of every conversation.

I wouldn't say it's worse. It technically claims to have end-to-end encryption while telegram doesn't. I wouldn't trust it at all because it's from Meta, but I don't see how you can say the one at least claiming to have encryption is worse than the one that just flat out doesn't have it.

Worse with an asterisk. For making contents encrypted - no, anything else - yes

Body language of the interviewer?

What about the astrological signs of the people?

It's also the name of a tool for working with braided rope.

It’s not his real name

It's a surname, he used to be a boat punk younger.

Isn't it possible to verify WhatsApp encryption with packet sniffing?