There are many problems with the way we’re doing one-to-one and one-to-many short message communication over the Internet right now, but making a bunch of slimy venture capitalists rich isn’t one of them. So try and understand what the real problems are before writing another VC-funded, walled-garden messaging platform: If it’s not cryptographically secure, end-to-end, everyone from the NSA to 4chan is going to fuck with your users. This is not acceptable in 2015. If it has investors, c...
