Signal Foundation is a non-profit. It is my understanding this is a 0% interest loan, not an investment. I'm no expert, but after examining their 2019 balance sheet, it seems to me like they are well on their way to paying it back.
I guess the salaries are competitive in San Francisco. Spicy!
It would be interesting if the networking model for the end targets could also be inverted, so that an agent (or something) on the end target could make an outbound connection to establish a reverse tunnel to the proxy that user connections could then be sent over.
The use case I'm thinking of is for IoT or robotics, where you have devices you want to manage being deployed into remote networks that you don't have much control over. It's really helpful in this situation if devices make outbound connections only, so that network operators don't have to configure their firewalls to port forward or set up a VPN.
That's really great introspection. I have the same tendency which has led to creating some really deeply unpleasant situations for myself. I hadn't thought about it quite in the same way until I read your comment, thank you for sharing this. I think I've just had a light blink on in my head.
In cases like the example mentioned, this is clearly a malicious entity. I don't agree that "get a subpoena" is the right response, some judgement should be applied to cases where someone is clearly using your service to do harm.
I guess the salaries are competitive in San Francisco. Spicy!
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