Meet Moxie Marlinspike: The Anarchist Sailor Who Built Signal and Encrypted Billions of Chats
Moxie Marlinspike, a dreadlocked squatter who sailed a $1,000 wreck to the Caribbean with bags of bricks for anchors, built Signal and the encryption guarding billions of WhatsApp and Messenger chats, then got Facebook, Google, and Microsoft to run his code.
The Bricks
The spare anchor is a bag of bricks.
Not a Danforth, not a plow, not one of those stainless-steel Rocna jewels the yacht-club people in Fort Lauderdale hang off their bows like cufflinks. Bricks. Red-clay, scavenged bricks, stuffed into a sack and tied to a line. Somewhere in the islands, off the side of a beat-up thirty-foot sailboat that a gang of broke kids bought as a wreck for a thousand dollars and named, with perfect punk logic, Pestilence, the sack goes over the side, ker-SPLOOSH, and everybody on deck watches the line pay out and thinks the same thing: Well. We'll see.
Bricks go...
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