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Engineering decisions, protocol deep-dives, and honest progress updates.
The Math Behind Your Privacy: How We Prove Wire Traffic Is Indistinguishable from Random
Shannon entropy, chi-squared tests, and autocorrelation analysis — the mathematical proof that Static's wire traffic looks like pure noise.
Static vs Discord: A Privacy Comparison
A factual, category-by-category comparison of what Discord collects versus what Static can see. Spoiler: one of them sees nothing.
Why We Built Static
Discord filed for IPO. Then came mandatory facial scans. Here's why we built an encrypted, open source alternative — and why now.