[tptacek]

Smarsh is apparently a big deal in the compliance space. They're not randos. That doesn't take away the hilarity of using a Signal clone that defeats the whole purpose of Signal, though.

[defen]

Additional hilarity provided by their name being one letter different from the latinisation of a Soviet spy agency / Bond supervillain organization.

[schoen]

It looks like it was originally meant as a reference to the username of the founder (Stephen Marsh).

[wisemang]

Lousy smarsh weather

[diamondage]

Seems like an odd choice of name from an apparently low attack surface, cybersecurity aware company...