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New comment by kookiburra in "I failed moving my Google calendar to Proton"

kookiburra — Wed, 15 Jan 2025 09:00:41 +0000

By the way, I wrote this article just last week - https://ownerofhappy.org/encrypted-email-bad

I actually agree, and personally I don't love how they advertise such foolproof security. It's dangerous especially when their non technical users don't understand the consequences. I've had multiple friends using Proton who think it's 100% private even when emailing a gmail user.

New comment by kookiburra in "I failed moving my Google calendar to Proton"

kookiburra — Wed, 15 Jan 2025 08:47:13 +0000

I agree, though self hosting can be too hard for everyday non tech users. I think the fact that Proton exists, regardless of all their issues, is still a good thing and a move in the right direction

New comment by kookiburra in "I failed moving my Google calendar to Proton"

kookiburra — Wed, 15 Jan 2025 08:43:51 +0000

I started out using Proton calendar but ended up discovering the dates are actually not encrypted, which I think is quite an oversight. Haven't found a replacement unfortunately so it might just be the best option for the cloud. For now a local notepad calendar it is!

New comment by kookiburra in "I failed moving my Google calendar to Proton"

kookiburra — Wed, 15 Jan 2025 08:40:07 +0000

Here's a relevant article - essentially I think Fastmail may actually be the more private option, since E2EE email promises are only at-rest if you don't use PGP.

https://ownerofhappy.org/encrypted-email-bad

Engineering "home-cooked" software

kookiburra — Tue, 14 Jan 2025 12:25:21 +0000

Article URL: https://ownerofhappy.org/software-fast-food

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42696398

Points: 54

# Comments: 31

New comment by kookiburra in "End-to-end encrypted email is bad for you"

kookiburra — Fri, 10 Jan 2025 17:09:22 +0000

Well, these services take a lot of moxie to run

New comment by kookiburra in "End-to-end encrypted email is bad for you"

kookiburra — Thu, 09 Jan 2025 00:32:37 +0000

That is a great distinction to make, though E2EE email providers don't even meet "pseudo E2EE". Unless using PGP, emails are encrypted on the server, making it no more than encryption at rest that can be bypassed without ever updating the client.

Unfortunately most encrypted providers skip through all these details and jump straight to advertising "zero knowledge encryption" which is dangerously misleading

End-to-end encrypted email is bad for you

kookiburra — Wed, 08 Jan 2025 15:06:33 +0000

Article URL: https://ownerofhappy.org/encrypted-email-bad

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42634988

Points: 3

# Comments: 4

New comment by kookiburra in "Show HN: My new social music sharing and discovery app, Solance"

kookiburra — Tue, 07 Jan 2025 10:29:14 +0000

I absolutely love the landing page. If only there was a web app to try it out without downloading stuff.