"There are reasons to think that Signal may not be around for very long. The nonprofit's blog, meant to convince us of the elite nature of its engineers, has the unintentional effect of conveying the incredible difficulty of building any new software feature under end-to-end encryption. Its team numbers roughly 40; Moxie Marlinspike has just left the organization. Achieving impossible feats may be fun for a stunt hacker with something to prove, but competing with major tech companies' engineering teams may not be sustainable for a small nonprofit with Marlinspike no longer at the helm."

"Fittingly for an organization formerly led by an anarchist, Signal lacks a sustainable business model, to the point where you might almost call it anti-capitalist."

How Signal walks the line between anarchism and pragmatism

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