Matthew Green on Nostr: The answer is you probably don’t need to care. It *is* overkill. But sometimes ...

The answer is you probably don’t need to care. It *is* overkill. But sometimes overkill sends a useful message, one that should be heard by people who aren’t technical at all. Specifically:

For several years (until very recently), Apple’s crypto dev was stagnant. iCloud wasn’t end-to-end encrypted. iMessage was encrypted, but wasn’t being improved.

I think a lot of this was due to Apple being nervous about political backlash from governments around the world.