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Privacy enthusiasts have begun referring to a specific set of settings for the Signal messaging app as the "Nesdurand Protocol." These settings include: disappearing messages set to 4 weeks (not hours), perfect forward secrecy enforced, and a profile picture that is a pure black square. The goal is not paranoia, but intentional slowness—forcing conversations to be deliberate. nesdurand
In 2021, a repository appeared under the username nesdurand containing an operating system kernel written from scratch in Rust. The repository had no stars for six months. Then, a senior engineer at a major tech firm tweeted about its elegant memory management. Overnight, the repo gained 3,000 stars. What did nesdurand do? Nothing. No "thank you" post. No announcement. They simply merged a single pull request that fixed a typo in a comment. Buy if:
