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by istingray 5y ago
Yes! Finally someone who gets it. Looking for Tor-first paid services to start up. At the end of the day, what Protonmail does just doesn't seem hard. I paid for their service with the mindset that it was temporary to invite better ven
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by istingray 5y ago
How do you like it? How does it compare to Protonmail? I've seen the name here a little but first time looking them up. The page title "Secure email: Tutanota..." is super similar to "Secure email: Protonmail..." Ev
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by istingray 5y ago
Appreciate the suggestion. Solutions like this also caught my interest: https://thehelm.com (hn discussion from last week: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28350466 from years ago: https://news.y
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by istingray 5y ago
Incredible that they were able to track down a boring purchase made at WalMart using security footage and Walmart's inventory management system. Yikes.
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by istingray 5y ago
The full quote is from Minneapolis Fed Chair Neel Kashkari who said on 60 minutes "We have an infinte amount of cash in the federal reserve": https://twitter.com/Vis_in_numeris/status/124190541015780556..
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Ask HN: Protonmail Alternatives?
30 points by istingray 5y ago|25 comments
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by istingray 5y ago
Oh neat, I haven't seen this before. Can you explain more for the rest of us? I saw it can be a personal email server - but then it started talking about storing everything for me and I lost a bit of interest as that sounds like it&#x2
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by istingray 5y ago
Can you define what "up front" means to you in this example? Homepage, privacy policy, user agreement, tweets?
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by istingray 5y ago
Wow neat. Yes this is a challenge with ProtonMail, the search can only go by subject line and recipients as message contents are encrypted. To your point about privacy not being lucrative, interesting.
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by istingray 5y ago
Thanks for asking. Your suggestion seems rather extreme, but I'm open to it if you make a good case. I'm curious to see more Tor-first service launch. 1. More blog posts about Tor, how Proton is supporting Tor 2. Updating their On
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Ask HN: Where do you go for good privacy tools?
1 points by istingray 5y ago|5 comments
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by istingray 5y ago
Would be curious to see a diff of Proton's privacy policy over the next few weeks.
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by istingray 5y ago
Assuming people who really use their services are criminals is like assuming someone who cares about a car's details is an illegal street racer. I use Protonmail to provide tools for journalists, teachers, and whistleblowers, and peopl
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by istingray 5y ago
You need to think bigger. How could Protonmail make the world a better place in this regard? Promote Tor to users through its blog? Report on Tor usage stats? Enable account creation through Tor without requiring a cell phone? All of the ab
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by istingray 5y ago
What about what I said suggests anything about not complying with the law? All my suggestions to Protonmail were around transparency and user education. They can host it in China if that's the case for all I care. In the modern age, ev
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by istingray 5y ago
Oh neat wasn't aware of ethmail.cc will check it out
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by istingray 5y ago
The users. Who else?
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by istingray 5y ago
Thought I was pretty clear here. My $$ going to EFF (Electronic Frontier Foundation) is meant to get me more bang for my buck than using Protonmail.
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by istingray 5y ago
Thought I was pretty clear here. My $$ going to EFF is meant to get me more bang for my buck than using Protonmail.
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by istingray 5y ago
I wonder if the future of a company like Protonmail is that it has to be open source. Almost like simply an API, no privacy statement, no marketing, just a smart contract. More like UniSwap.
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by istingray 5y ago
My threat model is an un-educated population of people who don't value privacy or care about surveillance. I'll put up with shitty tools in the mean time but can only support those who are building a better future. I would switch
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by istingray 5y ago
Edited to say I'm open to suggestions here. Given that Protonmail dropped the ball for $60/year, apparently that's not enough to keep them focused. I'm prepared to pay $100/year for email now.
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by istingray 5y ago
Yes, exactly this.
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by istingray 5y ago
Proton's first and last blog post about Tor was from 2017 [1] As a paying customer, I expect better. [1] https://protonmail.com/blog/tor-encrypted-email/
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by istingray 5y ago
Yes it's time Protonmail got rid of free accounts. Or disable free accounts so they can't send more than 10 emails a day. This isn't rocket science, Protonmail. You make it look hard. I'll take my money elsewhere (open t
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by istingray 5y ago
Figure out how to solve it. People need to be able to create accounts through Tor. Otherwise I'll just use Gmail it's free.
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by istingray 5y ago
Disclaimer: Paying Protonmail customer Proton's first and last blog post about Tor was in 2017. [1] The CEO today claimed to be a leader with Tor simply because they have a Tor site up. This is 2021, not 2017. I expect better. [1] htt
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by istingray 5y ago
Disclaimer: Protonmail customer and considering switching Wtf are you talking about here? No one expects a service to not be able to take logs or change their host country. I do expect Protonmail to explain how they have to obey the law and
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by istingray 5y ago
Disclaimer: Paying Protonmail customer I hear you. But in that case, why not just use Gmail? For $50/year I do expect Protonmail to be more like a life coach for privacy and surveillance. Not for me personally, but for the people who r
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by istingray 5y ago
Proton's homepage needs to say this. They must educate their users to live in the future. Attackers are always getting better. Why does Protonmail seem stuck in 2017 in their use of Tor?

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