hwhelan210

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by hwhelan210 5y ago
You might be interested in the technical reasons for requiring a phone number to use Signal. Not sure if there have been any updates since this blog post. https://signal.org/blog/secure-value-recovery/ > One c
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by hwhelan210 5y ago
I'm working on a decentralized storage solution for personal data. To be fair, it's not actually being used anywhere meaningful but I think it has real value (data ownership / privacy, encryption, protection from client code)
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by hwhelan210 5y ago
Those "rare issues" were also caused by a culture of prioritizing profit and speed of development over safety and training. More of those "rare issues" popped up months later.
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by hwhelan210 5y ago
This is a good idea! Where is the implementation and technical details? Here is a project I have been working on which tackles these challenges and more (end-to-end encryption, bring your own key, data ownership, open-source, protection fr
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by hwhelan210 5y ago
I've been working on something that could improve privacy for websites like this. It's basically end-to-end encryption for websites, so you could have a chat with a therapist without the middle-man being able to decrypt the data.
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by hwhelan210 5y ago
I don't think what we're running into here is "human nature" so much as it is investor nature. I'm not particularly familiar with them, but Polkadot has raised $300M. There has to be some return for that investment
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by hwhelan210 5y ago
> If someone has control of the application, aren't all bets off at that point? Great point, but not necessarily. This is what we are trying to solve with Redact. Would be interested to hear your thoughts on our solution: https:&#
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by hwhelan210 5y ago
Jumping in here to plug a company that I co-founded called Redact. We are developing a trustless way to store and process PII - our tech is end-to-end open source (unlike competitors), we don't use any proprietary encryption algorithm