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Re:Ask HN: Why does P2P encrypted messaging still suck? by tuxxy on Tuesday April 03, 2018 @05:28PM (#16749476)
Wait a minute here -- You're saying that the US military is patent trolling with secure, multiparty chat patents?

Can you link to said patents?

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Re:Ask HN: Why does P2P encrypted messaging still suck? by asdsa5325 on Tuesday April 03, 2018 @09:02PM (#16750957)
The person is wrong. It's a private company that has the patent, the company works with the government. I don't know why he implies the government is involved in the patent suit, they are not.
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Re:Ask HN: Why does P2P encrypted messaging still suck? by Sephr on Thursday April 05, 2018 @07:13PM (#16769611)
"It's not too hard to imagine…" isn't exactly the same as saying "It's true that…". I don't have hard evidence, but it's not hard to imagine VirnetX being manipulated behind the scenes by the US government. Similar circumstances have happened in the past.
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Re:Ask HN: Why does P2P encrypted messaging still suck? by jrhurst on Tuesday April 03, 2018 @06:57PM (#16750211)
It's not really trolling in this case since they actually use and develop on the technology
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Re:Ask HN: Why does P2P encrypted messaging still suck? by alexkon on Wednesday April 04, 2018 @02:40PM (#16757626)
The Ars Technica article on their lawsuit against Apple [1] said they advertised a product on their website but received zero revenue from that product and seemingly didn't have any engineers working on it.

[1] https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/10/full-scale-of-ap...

Edit: Added the link.

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