LinkLocker

The news about the new Signal Foundation is encouraging, provided that new stakeholders like Acton (and presumably others) don't get it in their heads to screw things up in the usual Silicon Valley way of screwing good things up. Moxie Marlinspike remains at the helm, and I trust him to keep Signal from becoming another ad-driven sinkhole of VC grossness. Also, the fact that this new entity is a non-profit ought to keep the incentives of all involved relatively pure.

It will be exciting ...

You may have noticed a few short stretches of downtime recently. These are planned events, as we are working to apply patches and mitigations in response to those nasty Spectre and Meltdown exploits you may have heard about in the news over the past couple of weeks. There is of course no sign of any intrusion related to these attack vectors, be we are taking proactive steps to ensure that we are as prepared for attacks of these sorts as we possibly can be. Rest ...