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whitenoise

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Building the messenger that deserves to exist

Group messaging without a central server is a consensus problem. We stopped patching the symptoms and rebuilt the protocol from the state machine outward. Here's the full story.

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White Noise Messenger: Beyond Signal

We are in a digital arms race. On one side stand states and intelligence agencies pushing for Chat Control. On the other side are citizens insisting on a basic right: privacy. Signal was considered the gold standard — but Signal is centralized. And it requires a phone number.

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Two taps. Done.

Most apps demand your email, phone, and password before you're in. White Noise takes two taps and no personal data.

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Marmot Protocol Monthly Recap: April 2026

April 2026 saw Marmot get a long-term home with the new Internet Privacy Foundation, ship key spec upgrades, reach four interoperable clients, and pay down technical debt = clearing the path for multi-device support next.

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Marmot Protocol Monthly Recap: March 2026

March: two White Noise releases, five clients shipping, a security audit landing in code, and a terminal client that finally cuts Flutter out of the picture.

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White Noise v2026.3.5

We shipped v0.3.0, found bugs that lost messages, and went quiet to fix them. v2026.3.5 is the result: messages that arrive instantly with delivery confirmation, group chats that no longer drop messages, improved image sharing, and Amber support. New CLI and terminal clients join the mobile app. A different product from where we started.

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White Noise v2026.3.23

Read the notes. Max doesn't hold back on what broke and why.

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Marmot Protocol Monthly Recap: February 2026

A packed month.

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A Cypherpunk Who Doesn’t Write Code: An Interview with Max Hillebrand

"Mean time to harassment" is the metric of freedom. Max Hillebrand builds tools to extend it, viewing privacy as the logical conclusion of human affairs. White Noise creates a parallel space: voluntary, not vulnerable.

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Marmot Protocol Monthly Recap: January 2026

We spent January focusing purely on code, advancing the Sloth rewrite, finalizing the Slate design system, and hardening the protocol.

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The Escape Hatch to Centralized Big-Tech: An Interview with White Noise Founder Jeff Gardner

The problem with Big Tech isn't just what they do with your data. It’s that they have it in the first place. In this interview, White Noise founder Jeff Gardner explains why it’s time to move toward an internet owned by users, not corporations.

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We all Have Secrets, and That's OK

"Nothing to hide" is a misunderstanding of how freedom works. Privacy isn't for criminals: it’s the boundary that protects your identity, your business, and your sanity.

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White Noise & Marmot Protocol: 2024-2025 Year in Review

Between 2024 and 2025, White Noise evolved from a research experiment into a production mobile messenger, establishing the Marmot Protocol to fill the gap for private, secure messaging on Nostr.

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