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Re:Worried About the Privacy of Your Messages? Download Signal by at612 on Thursday December 08, 2016 @10:04PM (#13136352)
> The suggestion that the motivation for this article is profit for the NYT or Moxie is quite destructive.

No, that's literally how it works. Media need to sell copy (clicks these days) and companies need to get coverage. And that's perfectly OK if companies are acting ethically and journalists and editors are doing due diligence.

The person that you mention has good connections in the media and uses them to self-promote and promote the tat he sells.

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Re:Worried About the Privacy of Your Messages? Download Signal by whybroke on Friday December 09, 2016 @03:28AM (#13137470)
>...tat he sells...

It's free.

And normally one would associate such vehement and repetitive insistence on counter-factuals with trolling

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Re:Worried About the Privacy of Your Messages? Download Signal by at612 on Friday December 09, 2016 @07:23AM (#13138319)
> It's free.

You misunderstand. He is running a company, what do you think their exit strategy is? You may want to look at his previous company and "red phone", I think was his product called.

> And normally one would associate such vehement and repetitive insistence on counter-factuals with trolling

I am sorry that you do not like to hear this.

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