ConsenSys announced in November that Infura, MetaMask’s API provider, was collecting wallet and IP addresses from MetaMask’s users.
Raullen Chai
Raullen Chai is the co-founder and CEO of IoTeX. He previously worked for companies including Google, Uber and Oracle. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Waterloo, where his research focused on designing and analyzing lightweight ciphers and IoT authentication protocols. At Google, he led many important security initiatives for its technical infrastructure, including mitigation of SSL attacks, privacy-preserving SSL offloading and enabling certificate transparency for all Google services. He was also the founding engineer of Google Cloud Load Balancer, which now serves thousands of cloud services, with 1 million-plus queries per second.
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Infura is to blame for MetaMask’s violation of the crypto spirit - Opinion
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