I had to look. This tickled the copywriter in me: "Mission: To extend human reach by giving everyone the code to leverage their life." so you can leverage your life? never thought of that.
But I think the HBO series Rome captured exactly this, or at least as much as it could in brief span. The life and struggles of freemen and slaves, not just the emperor. One of the greatest TV series ever, and cut off in its prime after only 2 seasons. Full set of Rome built on Cinecittà studios!
They had an outline of the story for several more seasons, and the showrunner has described how it would have gone. I am very, very grateful they decided to stop when they did -- they were about to ruin the show.
Unless they moved some things forward because they knew it was ending ending, I agree. As much as part of me wants to see where some of that goes, I know it wouldn’t have been good. Not like the rest of it was.
Separate topic: The way the show handled Antony’s speech at Caesar’s funeral got one of the biggest laughs out of me of any TV show ever.
I was at a bitcoin conference in 2018. One guy in the booth told me that the company had set up a $100M fund to fund startups that agreed to build apps on their blockchain. I wonder where they are now?
I just switched to Codex after using Claude Code (heavily). The main advantage is that usage/pricing is MUCH more transparent. It's slower but generally more thoughtful. Claude Code has that bad habit of slapping together duplicates, fallbacks, mock data. Thus far, Codex is doing a bit better, but I still use (and pay for) both.
Attorney and legal commentator Tristan Snell, via X: "Elon Musk's purchase of Twitter was financed by borrowing money. He used his Tesla stock as collateral. If Tesla stock keeps crashing, the banks/creditors could repossess Twitter."
Totally! Probably for a restaurant menu or something. . . It also seems likely that they added Jeffrey Goldberg, (the Atlantic's editor-in-chief) to the chat as the outlet, so the whole thing would become public. . . .
You guys are forgetting that you have to scan the QR code from Signal's "link new device" menu, and then approve the new device, which is a somewhat uncommon thing for a restaurant menu to ask you to do.
“… the threat actors, including one it's tracking as UNC5792, have resorted to malicious QR codes that, when scanned, will link a victim's account to an actor-controlled Signal instance.”
“ These QR codes are known to masquerade as group invites, security alerts, or legitimate device pairing instructions from the Signal website.”
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“ Last week, Microsoft and Volexity also revealed that multiple Russian threat actors are taking advantage of a technique called device code phishing to log into victims' accounts by targeting them via messaging apps like WhatsApp, Signal, and Microsoft Teams.”
Signal could make the pairing attack impossible by eliminating the device pairing feature, but that would also reduce its appeal and harm its mission of bringing secure communication to a broad audience. It could add steps to setting up a group chat and inviting additional members to make it less likely users will invite the wrong person, but that, too would hurt its popularity.
Security is a process and a spectrum, not a binary that can be guaranteed by using a certain product or service.
I agree. There are official channels that already exist for discussing sensitive information, and it does not appear Signal is one of them. These officials using any device or software not approved for that purpose constitutes a serious breach of protocol.
Signal probably shouldn't be approved for that purpose because it does trade some foolproofness for convenience. Secure communication should also be limited to dedicated devices, which probably wouldn't have journalists stored in their contacts.
The CIA was approved to use signal but for certain applications. Probably because it was better than SMS. But not good enough for classified information.
You could see a CIA agent being in Russia needing to use Signal with an informant, e.g. But that wouldn't be the same level of security needed to hold nuclear secrets.
I imagine Signal itself is secure enough that it wouldn't be unreasonable for a government to develop a procedure to use it to transmit classified information under certain conditions.
That list of conditions would likely be quite restrictive compared to how we saw it used here. It would certainly include using a dedicated device for classified information, and would forbid taking that device to an unfriendly country. The US government doesn't need to do that though; it already has its own systems for secure communication.
