The Founder Of Signal Hilariously Trolled White House Officials About Their Text Message Drama
Sooo, we're all up to date on that "journalist in the private chat discussing 'war' or 'attack' plans" thing, right?
On Wednesday, all of the texts were released.
And, then, basically, everyone in the White House was caught up on the whole "war plan" vs. "attack plan" thing.
It's all semantics!
Well, now a post from the founder of the app they were using, Signal, is speaking out.
This is Matthew Rosenfeld aka Moxie Marlinspike. He invented Signal. For those who don't know, Signal is a private messaging app that provides end-to-end encrypted text, voice, and video communications.
Well, Moxie used this text drama to promote the app, and his response is going viral:
He's got a point!
As this person said, "Millions of advertising couldn't get you this."
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