Long-form pieces on what's actually happening with encryption, peer-to-peer architecture, and the difference between privacy as a courtesy and privacy as architecture. If you share any of these on Reddit or HN, we'd be grateful.
A manifesto, more or less, for why the standard "I have nothing to hide" reply misses the point. Your family birthday plans, your best friend's worst week, your "I love you" before bed — these aren't content to be scanned, ranked, or routed to advertising. They're yours.
Signal's own team says the phone number requirement is their critics' top complaint. It's also the single most durable identifier most people hand over to a messaging company. Why we built OpenDescent without one, and how we solve the spam problem it normally solves.
"Peer-to-peer" is a phrase you'll see on almost every privacy product's marketing page. Most of them use it incorrectly. An explainer with diagrams of what P2P is, what federation is, what "end-to-end encrypted on a central server" is, and where each one fails.
Discord leaked 70,000 government IDs in 2025. Its verification partner Persona exposed another 2,500 files in 2026. This isn't about Discord's implementation. The moment any company is responsible for holding 100 million driver's licenses, that company becomes the most valuable target on the internet — and the breach is eventually inevitable.
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