Moxie Marlinspike // Activist Sailor
On the Wind Sailing
Andy Schell
4.8 • 593 Ratings
🗓️ 27 September 2016
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
#162. Moxie Marlinspike is a legend in tech. As a programmer, he literally wrote the code that enables everyday encryption. He's friendly with Edward Snowden and was recently feature in WIRED magazine. Moxie, though, is a sailor at heart. I worked together with him at Broadreach way back in 2008. We caught up to talk about his unique sailing philosophy, his movie 'HOLD FAST' & his rise in the tech world.
If you've followed the news even tangentially, you'll have heard about encryption. Remember Edward Snowden? His revelations about the FBI's mass collection of data from everyday Americans set off a wave of stories centered around personal privacy & national security. Today's guest is at the center of that debate - Moxie Marlinspike, almost single-handedly invented everyday encryption, and his code was recently implemented in WhatsApp and Facebook's new 'secret' Messenger service. If you're interested in this sort of thing at all, I highly recommend watching the documentary about Snowden called Citizen Four, and reading the recent WIRED Magazine profile on Moxie, which you can easily find on Google, or I'll link it in the show notes.
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This episode is sponsored by Forbes Horton Yachts. Visit his online inventory and get in touch to buy or sell your next boat at forbesyachts.com.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, this is Forbes Horton with Forbes Horton Yachts. |
| 0:04.0 | Just want to give a couple tips out there for people that are interested in purchasing a cruising boat and living the so-called dream. |
| 0:11.8 | The engine is typically the most expensive thing to replace when looking at an older boat. |
| 0:18.3 | They will last a long time. |
| 0:20.6 | Most of the time, they rust out before they wear |
| 0:22.8 | out, but replacement involves shafts, motor mounts, cutless bearings, propellers, and then, of course, |
| 0:29.7 | the carpentry and the fiberglass work that's required to remove it. So if you can find an older |
| 0:34.7 | boat that someone has already repowered, you're already well ahead of the game. |
| 0:41.0 | Big thanks to Forbes Horton for sponsoring this episode of the podcast. |
| 0:44.9 | We trusted Forbes when we bought East Bjorn, and I think you should trust him too. |
| 0:50.3 | Visit his online inventory and get in touch at Forbesyats.com. |
| 0:55.1 | That's F-O-R-B-E-S, Forbesyots.com. |
| 1:00.1 | In case you missed it, in last week's newsletter, Mia and I officially published our 2018 offshore passage calendar. |
| 1:08.3 | East Bjorn is headed north. |
| 1:13.3 | That's right, we're Arctic bound in summer 2018, with passages to Scotland, Norway, Spitzbergen, and Iceland. Visit 59-north.com |
| 1:21.7 | for details and to register. So you guys get first dibs before the big launch at the boat show in October. |
| 1:30.6 | You can come visit us there on Doc H at the Annapolis Sailboat Show to tour East Bjorn and talk about ocean sailing. |
| 1:41.0 | If you follow the news even tangentially, you'll have heard about encryption. |
| 1:45.8 | Remember Edward Snowden? |
| 1:47.9 | His revelations about the FBI's mass collection of data from everyday Americans |
| 1:52.6 | set off a wave of stories centered around personal privacy and national security. |
| 1:57.6 | Today's guest is at the center of that debate. |
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