Anyone else wondering?

  • poop@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    1 year ago

    It sounds like you’re slightly mis-remembering this oft-cited Hacker News comment from Moxie from 2015. I’m going to quote the main bit here because honestly a lot of people in this thread could stand to think about it:

    If we were going to rank our priorities, they would be in this order:

    1. Make mass surveillance impossible.

    2. Stop targeted attacks against crypto nerds.

    It’s not that we don’t find #2 laudable, but optimizing for #1 takes precedence when we’re making decisions.

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      1 year ago

      I wasn’t actually quoting this, but yeah, I think that’s the point. Supporting SMS was helping adoption by promoting a seamless transition for users. Dropping it feels like prioritizing #2 to me. (All this comment thread about opsec, compartimentalization, activism, etc is really about #2, IMO)