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You might be interested in the technical reasons for requiring a phone number to use Signal. Not sure if there have been any updates since this blog post. https://signal.org/blog/s…

I'm working on a decentralized storage solution for personal data. To be fair, it's not actually being used anywhere meaningful but I think it has real value (data ownership / priv…

Those "rare issues" were also caused by a culture of prioritizing profit and speed of development over safety and training. More of those "rare issues" popped up months later.

This is a good idea! Where is the implementation and technical details? Here is a project I have been working on which tackles these challenges and more (end-to-end encryption, bri…

I've been working on something that could improve privacy for websites like this. It's basically end-to-end encryption for websites, so you could have a chat with a therapist witho…

I don't think what we're running into here is "human nature" so much as it is investor nature. I'm not particularly familiar with them, but Polkadot has raised $300M. There has to …

> If someone has control of the application, aren't all bets off at that point? Great point, but not necessarily. This is what we are trying to solve with Redact. Would be interest…

Jumping in here to plug a company that I co-founded called Redact. We are developing a trustless way to store and process PII - our tech is end-to-end open source (unlike competito…