[AdmiralAsshat]

Oh, they hired a developer behind Signal. No offense to Mr. Jacobs, I'm sure he is an excellent developer. But I saw the headline and assumed they had grabbed Moxie.

[jpstory]

Everyone who has ever known, or known of Moxie, thought the same :D I think we'd all love to see him be CCO (Chief Cryptography Officer) or something similar for Apple. Not to diminish his work at Whisper Systems, but talent like his should be reaching the 100 of millions of customers that Apple has reach to. Moxie, I know you hop on hacker news every so often - if you read this - would you go work for Apple? Or are they too closed source for your tastes?

[justin66]

I think we'd all love to see him be CCO (Chief Cryptography Officer) or something similar for Apple.

I assumed that were referring to Moxie and my initial thought was that it would represent a sad loss of autonomy for him.

[ProAm]

I don't see Moxie ever joining a company like Apple.

[robert_foss]

I for one hope that his efforts aren't wasted within one narrow ecosystem.

[kitd]

Exactly. Writing a user of Signal on Android, Apple is the last place I want him to be!

[fweespeech]

I'd honestly prefer he remains independent of Apple.

I have no desire to purchase Apple products and them picking him up would probably be a loss to Signal which I actually use.

[nxzero]

Agree, Apple's security culture is not compatible in my opinion; unless Apple changes, which is unlikely.

[qntty]

I assumed the same