Moxie Marlinspike

Most-linked posts?

1. My First Impressions of Web3
   55 people · 58 mentions · first linked 2022-01-07
2. GPG and Me (2015)
   15 people · 15 mentions · first linked 2020-11-29
3. GPG and me (2015)
   12 people · 14 mentions · first linked 2016-05-01
4. We Should All Have Something to Hide
   12 people · 12 mentions · first linked 2016-05-15
5. The Cryptographic Doom Principle
   10 people · 10 mentions · first linked 2016-05-03
6. /2013/06/12/we-should-all-have-something-to-hide.html
   9 people · 10 mentions · first linked 2020-06-06
7. The Cryptographic Doom Principle (2011)
   9 people · 10 mentions · first linked 2020-09-20
8. /software/sslstrip/
   9 people · 9 mentions · first linked 2016-10-12
9. A Crypto Challenge for the Telegram Developers (2013)
   9 people · 9 mentions · first linked 2016-04-19
10. /blog/lavabit-critique/
    8 people · 9 mentions · first linked 2016-04-16

What Hacker News says?

1. NavinF · 2022-09-04

   Yep. On any other site I’d assume that comment was satire. Nothing’s changed in the last decade: https://moxie.org/2015/02/24/gpg-and-me.html https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2014/08/13/whats-ma...

   Comment linking /2015/02/24/gpg-and-me.html

   on “After self-hosting my email for twenty-three years I have thrown in the towel”
2. natdempk · 2022-01-07

   Submitted My First Impressions of Web3 as a story · 3393 points

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3. fossuser · 2020-05-08

   It sucks because the UX is so bad that people don’t use it, even when their lives depend on it. [0] Even when they do use it, it’s easy to mess up. The biggest flaw though is that in person key signing parties were never a viable or realistic thing for identity verification and web of trust based on that works poorly as a result. The use of multiple signed public social media accounts for identity instead as a way t…

   Comment linking /blog/gpg-and-me/

   on “Zoom Acquires Keybase”
4. BCM43 · 2019-05-28

   Submitted Scene report from the Chernobyl Zone as a story · 397 points

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5. evbogue · 2024-02-20

   Moxie is currently completing New Year's resolutions that his friends have assigned him: https://moxie.org/stories/year-of-the-challenge/

   Comment linking /stories/year-of-the-challenge/

   on “Keep your phone number private with Signal usernames”
6. kiyanwang · 2025-05-19

   Submitted What makes a good engineer also makes a good engineering organization (2024) as a story · 337 points

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7. ymse · 2016-06-23

   > They issued fraudulent SSL certificates in 2011: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2011/03/comodo_group_... Moxie had an amusing anecdote about this incident in his Blackhat 2011 talk "SSL and the future of authenticity"[0]. Apparently the same IP as was used by the "sophisticated attacker" and disclosed by Comodo downloaded sslsniff[1] from moxies server the next day, referred by a video tutorial about inter…

   Comment linking /software/sslsniff/

   on “Defending Our Brand”
8. Bluestein · 2024-08-24

   Submitted The Cryptographic Doom Principle (2011) as a story · 139 points

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9. pjc50 · 2018-03-31

   > great way to explain privacy limitations to a non-tech-savvy person is to walk them through using GPG. Have you ever actually successfully done this? More than once? And they continue to use it? It's a usability nightmare. https://moxie.org/blog/gpg-and-me/

   Comment linking /blog/gpg-and-me/

   on “Facebook Secretly Saved Videos Users Deleted”
10. harporoeder · 2022-05-16

    Submitted The Worst (2012) as a story · 131 points

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11. lucb1e · 2021-02-04

    That's the sort of PoC that should be PGP encrypted to the Signal authors instead of publicly posted. Iran will have a field day with it being posted like this. Except, of course, that posting public keys is too 1990s for him https://moxie.org/2015/02/24/gpg-and-me.html (which contains some good arguments but offers no solutions, so whatcha gonna do, post a phone number and trust the signal servers to give you the r…

    Comment linking /2015/02/24/gpg-and-me.html

    on “Help users in Iran reconnect to Signal”
12. todsacerdoti · 2020-11-29

    Submitted GPG and Me (2015) as a story · 101 points

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13. phgn · 2022-01-10

    I got the impression that his web3 post [0] only talks about token incentives, DAOs and other decentralisation for decentralisation's sake. There's no mention of MobileCoin, which I gather he just sees as tool to facilitate anonymous payments (it's a token on top of Stellar). [0] https://moxie.org/2022/01/07/web3-first-impressions.html

    Comment linking /2022/01/07/web3-first-impressions.html

    on “New Year, New CEO”
14. tosh · 2018-01-03

    Submitted GPG and me (2015) as a story · 101 points

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15. mirkules · 2017-01-14

    I couldn't disagree more. The fact that our laws are subjectively interpreted is a blessing. There are so many laws that the Congressional Research Service can't even count them all. In other words, we are all breaking laws every day.[0] Absolute law enforcement is a bad idea, for the fact that it provides no path towards civil disobedience[1] Take for example the Texas "sodomy" law, that prevented homosexual couple…

    Comment linking /blog/we-should-all-have-something-to-hide/

    on “I Turned a Routine Traffic Ticket into a Constitutional Trial”
16. zerognowl · 2016-11-26

    Submitted A Crypto Challenge for the Telegram Developers (2013) as a story · 77 points

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17. twis · 2021-05-27Recommends

    Highly entertaining stories https://moxie.org/stories.html (Moxie Marlinspike)

    Comment linking /stories.html

    on “Ask HN: Favorite Blogs by Individuals?”
18. JoshTriplett · 2016-07-13

    Submitted A Saudi Arabia Telecom's Surveillance Pitch (2013) as a story · 59 points

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19. diego_moita · 2022-03-23

    "People don’t want to run their own servers, and never will". Moxie Marlinspike https://moxie.org/2022/01/07/web3-first-impressions.html

    Comment linking /2022/01/07/web3-first-impressions.html

    on “Web3 is centralized and inefficient”
20. tgragnato · 2018-04-21

    Submitted Your app shouldn't suffer SSL's problems (2011) as a story · 44 points

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21. blenderdt · 2022-03-23

    I think the blog post of Moxie Marlinspike is related to this. It was also discussed some weeks ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29845208 https://moxie.org/2022/01/07/web3-first-impressions.html

    Comment linking /2022/01/07/web3-first-impressions.html

    on “Web3 is centralized and inefficient”
22. jellyksong · 2016-05-09

    Submitted GPG and Me (2015) as a story · 26 points

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23. mmaunder · 2022-03-23

    I still can't get over that NFT's are just a URL pointing to the data. They don't even have an on-chain hash of the digital asset. It's like selling a sign pointing to houses for the price of the house, and claiming you own the house, hoping that the sign will increase in value the way the house does, and bragging about it. For reference: https://moxie.org/2022/01/07/web3-first-impressions.html

    Comment linking /2022/01/07/web3-first-impressions.html

    on “Web3 is centralized and inefficient”
24. O__________O · 2022-10-13

    Submitted Signal’s Founder on GPG (2015) as a story · 19 points

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25. nl · 2022-03-23

    This is a pretty weak piece. > Your wallet (MetaMask), marketplaces (OpenSea), APIs (Alchemy) are all central platforms. The whole point of the blockchain as a decentralized database idea is that people are free (in the "you don't need permission" sense) to build on it. Just because OpenSea is a popular interface for trading NFTs it doesn't mean you can't also trade those same NFTs elsewhere. And your wallet isn't "…

    Comment linking /2022/01/07/web3-first-impressions.html

    on “Web3 is centralized and inefficient”
26. cl3misch · 2025-11-11

    Submitted GPG and Me (2015) as a story · 18 points

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27. mtgx · 2016-12-06Recommends

    I guess this is a good opportunity to review Matthew Green and Moxie's posts on PGP, too: https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2014/08/13/whats-ma... https://moxie.org/blog/gpg-and-me/

    Comment linking /blog/gpg-and-me/

    on “I'm giving up on PGP”
28. piker · 2024-09-23

    Submitted What makes a good engineer also makes a good engineering organization as a story · 11 points

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29. negus · 2024-08-25

    See my comment above about the unencrypted backup. It's basically a UX tradeoff: You can not promote default E2E + no autobackups -- people in mass are not ready to lose their data when losing the device. Nor they are ready to store the key separately in a confidential manner. Nor they are ready to manually transfer the key among different devices. All this UX situation is defined by Moxie (the author of Signal and…

    Comment linking /2015/02/24/gpg-and-me.html

    on “Arrest of Pavel Durov, Telegram CEO, charges of terrorism, fraud, child porn”
30. luu · 2016-06-02

    Submitted The Worst (2012) as a story · 10 points

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