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Re:Google backs off on previously announced Allo privacy fea... by BostonEnginerd on Wednesday September 21, 2016 @09:41PM (#12553707)
I'm not sure why Moxie gets so much grief on some of these issues. To his credit, he's released just about everything under a free software license -- with reproducible builds and all.

Ultimately, it's his baby and he can do what he wants with it.

Re:Google backs off on previously announced Allo privacy fea... by nxzero on Thursday September 22, 2016 @07:45AM (#12556117)
While speculation, Moxie's projects appear to have gotten (deservedly) a lot of attention, which brings a lot of feedback that's unfounded and potential malicious; for example, the f-droid comment about in my opinion fails to reflect both sides of the issue, and build security is VERY IMPORTANT and often ignored.

I don't know Moxie, but we've exchange messages before and never got the sense that off the cuff he was discounting any feedback. At a very highly level we agree about what he's doing, though I get the sense that anonymity is something we don't exactly agree about, but do understand a little of why he feels the way he does.