For the Love of Humans and Technology
Winter Break of Code Day TenA couple of days ago, Jake, one of the brilliant full-timers on Open Whisper Systems, looked up from his laptop and asked me with a smile, “So, Yoko, what’s your life story?...
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Winter Break Of Code Day ElevenEvery morning at standup I’d watch the knife spin in slow motion, dread filling my chest and a voice in my head repeating, over and over, “not Slytherin.” (The target of...
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Mahalo
Winter Break Of Code Day TwelveA few days ago, someone suggested that we go scuba diving and I said “yeah sure, that sounds fun”. Once we actually got to the dive site I realized I had no clue what I...
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Winter Break Of Code Day ThirteenMy ten-year-old mind was completely blown when I realized that I could eavesdrop on the walkie-talkie conversations of the other kids in my neighborhood. I rode my bike...
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Real World Kauai
Winter Break Of Code Day FourteenWhen I agreed to take part in Winter Break of Code, I had no idea what to really expect. While many people questioned my choice to spend my winter vacation writing...
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They Live
Winter Break Of Code, Day FifteenThe 1988 film They Live is one of the last great masterpieces to come out of the Hollywood left. In the film, a drifter named John Nada discovers a box of sunglasses...
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A post from Natalie, Winter Break Of Code, Day SixteenToday, I watched sunlight dance atop billowing waves, a natural circus spectacular.I meditated on two syllables, allowing my breath and heartbeat...
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Mutiny!
Winter Break Of Code Day SeventeenIn this life nearly every relationship we create and maintain is built upon expectations. You do this, I’ll do that, and together we’ll fail to oppose entropy but...
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Paddle Out
Winter Break Of Code Day EighteenLate this afternoon I took a break from working to surf. The sun was setting and a cool breeze was picking up as grey clouds billowed behind the mountains along Hanalei...
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Beyond the Grunts and Clicks: An Exploration into Doing Things the Hard Way
Winter Break Of Code Day NineteenI recently had the opportunity to listen to another amazing podcast from 99% Invisible, a program about “design, architecture and the 99% invisible activity that shapes...
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Signal 2.0: Private messaging comes to the iPhone
Today we’re releasing Signal 2.0, with support for TextSecure private messaging.It is now possible to send end-to-end encrypted group, text, picture, and video messages between Signal on iPhone and...
View ArticleSaying goodbye to encrypted SMS/MMS
It’s 2015, and the end of the road for encrypted SMS/MMS in TextSecure.The TextSecure story started back in 2009, at the dawn of the smartphone era. Back then, TextSecure focused on securing the...
View ArticleNo Risk No Reward
After immersing myself for years and years in the world of finance (specifically, options market making and algorithmic trading), there was no escaping this mantra of “no risk, no reward.” Most of the...
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Just Signal
Today we’ve started rolling out Signal for Android, which unites simple private messaging and simple private calling into a single app on Android. This is the culmination of our effort to combine...
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Signal Desktop
Today we’re making the Signal Desktop beta available. Signal Desktop brings the trusted private messaging experience of Signal to the desktop, with a simplicity that allows you to seamlessly continue...
View ArticleSignal on the outside, Signal on the inside
A few months ago we completed the process of unifying all of our apps across Android, iOS, and the Desktop under the name ‘Signal.’ This simplified the language around our apps and eliminated a lot of...
View ArticleReproducible Signal builds for Android
As of our latest Android release, Signal builds are reproducible. Reproducible builds help to verify that the source code in our GitHub repository is the exact source code used to build the compiled...
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WhatsApp's Signal Protocol integration is now complete
At Open Whisper Systems, our goal is to make private communication simple. A year ago, we announced a partnership with WhatsApp and committed to integrating the Signal Protocol into their product,...
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Signal Desktop beta now publicly available
For the past few months, the Signal Desktop beta has been available through an invitation program. We’ve gotten a lot of feedback, made a lot of improvements, and are now ready to open the beta up for...
View ArticleReflections: The ecosystem is moving
At Open Whisper Systems, we’ve been developing open source “consumer-facing” software for the past four years. We want to share some of the things we’ve learned while doing it.As a software developer,...
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