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Show HN: Built some privacy tools(privsen.com)
1 points by privsen 10mo ago|0 comments
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by privsen 10mo ago
Love the self-hosted approach. Pinky-promise lies is exactly my concern with most services. Setting up nginx is more than my parents could handle though. Curious if there is something in between - no third party data access but also no serv
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by privsen 10mo ago
Simple and works! Though I have read that PDF passwords are surprisingly easy to crack and the file lives in their inbox forever. Guess it depends on the threat model.
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by privsen 10mo ago
Bit warden Send looks nice but the free tier is text-only my parents needed to send a PDF. Will check if 1ty.me handles files.
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by privsen 10mo ago
The split channel approach is clever, never thought of that. Do you find people actually follow through with the second channel or do they just reply what's the code?" in the same thread?
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by privsen 10mo ago
Fair - it's convenient. Though after seeing how many services train AI on uploaded content, I've gotten paranoid about what I put in cloud storage.
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Ask HN: What's your go to for sharing sensitive files with non tech people?
6 points by privsen 10mo ago|14 comments
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What ChatGPT stores about you (Stanford study found 63% contains PII)(privsen.com)
1 points by privsen 10mo ago|0 comments
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by privsen 10mo ago
Yeah fair.. self-destructing is overselling it. Server drops the blob after timeout/view count. Server sees expiry, view count, salt, iv. Content is encrypted, metadata isn't. Can't avoid this with server-managed TTL - altern
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by privsen 10mo ago
Scratched my own itch. Needed to share passwords without them sitting in chat logs forever. Client-side AES-256-GCM, PBKDF2 key derivation. Server just holds encrypted blobs until expiry. Questions welcome.
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Show HN: Drop – Self-destructing encrypted messages(privsen.com)
1 points by privsen 10mo ago|3 comments
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by privsen 10mo ago
Nice