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Incensing critics, Google engineer ends push for crypto-only setting in Allo

(credit: Yuri Samoilov)

A co-leader on Google's product security team has waved a piece of red meat in front of already frothing privacy advocates by deleting part of a blog post saying he wished the Allo messenger app the company announced Wednesday would provide end-to-end encryption by default.

To critics, the deletion by Thai Duong amounted to tacit...

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Geek of the Week: Socedo’s Akash Badshah straddles the line between engineer and entrepreneur
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Akash Badshah calls himself the “classic millennial engineer,” but really he finds himself sitting squarely at the intersection between an engineer and people manager. He wears a lot of hats as the product architect at Socedo, a Seattle startup that helps business generate sales leads from Twitter. He has to think strategically about Socedo’s longterm roadmap as the...
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