Moxie Marlinspike
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Sep 25, 2026
Peter GostevHOST
Yeah
Alex VolkovHOST
... to give it out for free, the business model that they're advertising for it is that, "Hey, we're gonna have a secure VM," which was co-architected with Moxie Marlinspike, the creator of Signal.
Alex VolkovHOST
That secure VM is at the level of a cryptographically verifiable solution that even Zuckerberg himself would not be able to read your data because it's end-to-end encrypted.
Alex VolkovHOST
That's what they're touting live on stage.
DavidHOST
He laid out a rigorous, mathematically verifiable cryptographic architecture.
DavidHOST
He revealed that Meta partnered directly with Moxie Marlinspike to design the security infrastructure for Muse.
speaker_1HOST
Bringing Marlinspike into this is a huge deal.
DavidHOST
For anyone who doesn't follow cryptography, Moxie Marlinspike is a titan in the privacy world.
DavidHOST
He is the original creator of the Signal encryption protocol.
speaker_1HOST
Which is legendary.
18 MINS LATER
speaker_1HOST
The bouncer and the bartender.
DavidHOST
It's about securing all of that intimate data inside confidential virtual machines, locked with your own private cryptographic key.
speaker_1HOST
And they are porting that exact cryptographic philosophy to the Muse agent.
speaker_1HOST
The source explicitly mentions they recruited Moxie Marlinspike.
speaker_0HOST
Oh, the Signal guy.
speaker_1HOST
Yes.
Alex VolkovHOST
We also welcome security privacy experts to reach out to us about early access.
Alex VolkovHOST
Zach talked about on the podcast is Moxie Marlinspike, the founder of Signal, which is notoriously known as one of the most secure messaging platforms out there, was recruited by them.
Alex VolkovHOST
Nat Friedman recruited Moxie Marlinspike to work on the secure VM.
Alex VolkovHOST
This, to me, kills all of the stuff about, hey, meta, blah, blah, blah, take your data, just completely.
Alex VolkovHOST
This is more secure than my Mac Mini, because my Mac Mini is not verifiably secure, and it's not being continuously tested.
Mike BelsitoHOST
And this is one where they claim that even Meta itself can't see what's happening inside your virtual machine.
Mike BelsitoHOST
Now, Zuckerberg personally recruited Moxie Marlinspike.
Mike BelsitoHOST
First of all, what a name.
Mike BelsitoHOST
But that is a real person.
Mark ZuckerbergGUEST
So we took that as one of the foundational lessons.
Mark ZuckerbergGUEST
When we were getting started with this, Nat and I actually personally recruited Moxie Marlinspike.
Alex HeathHOST
Founder of Signal.
Mark ZuckerbergGUEST
Yeah, and one of the people who helped us build the WhatsApp antenna encryption back in the day, back in 2014, he joined to specifically work on this confidential VM project, which makes it so that you can have your virtual machine and have all this information in your Muse, and we can make the commitment that even meta cannot see the content that is in there.