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Messages, Not Metadata: Session with Kee Jefferys

Mar 5, 2025
39:33

Kee Jefferys (@JefferysKee) is the technical co-founder of Session, the end-to-end encrypted messenger that emphasizes user confidentiality and anonymity. Session uses a blockchain-based decentralized network for message transmission and is open-source, so the system can be run entirely by its community. In this episode, Kee explains the importance of reducing metadata, the challenges of centralization, and the role of incentives in creating a decentralized network. 

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In this episode we discuss:

  • Why the demand for better privacy has increased 

  • How Session differs from other encrypted messaging platforms 

  • Combining encryption and incentive models

  • Why open-source is so critical to messaging applications trying to prove their security

  • How Session could outlast its developers

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