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Why use and popularize a 3rd party stored personal notes app at all? I'm well aware that this is how a lot of people do this sort of trading convenience for gen
by Johnny555 4y ago
Why use and popularize a 3rd party stored personal notes app at all? I'm well aware that this is how a lot of people do this sort of trading convenience for genuine security.
I have more than one device and I'd like to be able to take notes on one and have them viewable/editable on the others. With E2EE, I don't have to trade this convenience for security.
- jrm4 4y agoBut with an app that doesn't use a 3rd party, you don't have to much worry about E2EE at all, as I understand it. E.g. Syncthing + Markor.
- Johnny555 4y agoSo instead of a third party, I'm expected to install and run my own syncing service on the open internet and all of the security patching/monitoring is up to me? I'd still want E2EE for that since if someone breaks the syncing service they'd have access to all of my notes.
- jrm4 4y agoYes. And not sure why you're dramatizing it so hard, the best security/patching/monitoring comes from free and open source software, and the biggest fails tend to come from third parties that I (or more importantly, everybody else) can't monitor. This is all the whole entire point of software freedom. It's not that it's perfect, but it is as good, frequently better, than third parties. Weird how this is controversial. Try syncthing. But if not that, I mean, rsync, which is what the big boys rely on anyway.