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[–] taro_purple@sh.itjust.works 19 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

I used protonmail in its early days but stopped after they started putting resources to pursuing cryptocurrency when their mail service was still not totally complete and while they also had ambitious plans for a whole office ecosystem as an alternative to Google docs etc. Seeing the zeal for this cryptocurrency angle at the time evaporated any trust I had in their product decision-making.

That and I remember a lot of their marketing being around the fact that they had ex-CERN employees but IIRC they weren't working on anything cryptography or security related at CERN so it sounded like they were just assuming scientists are smart so people will just assume their product is safer, which was a bit sus.

This chatbot thing is totally in line with that so I guess they haven't really changed.

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 5 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Unrelated to protonmail, but related to getting the wrong guy for the job. The telegram CEO said that the cryptography of telegram was coded by his brother. (The CEO is also famously not a persona non grata in Russia which likely means the FSB has access to telegram (And if they have access, more people can have it))

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 5 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Nikolai Durov has two Ph.Ds in maths, and is convinced he is the smartest man in the world, and Telegram's cryptography follows directly

[–] Seminar2250@awful.systems 4 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

i made the stupid mistake of doing math, then cs

surrounded by

my narrow technical specialty + lack of experience or knowledge of other fields = i'm the smartest, here is a trivial solution to your problem

constantly

[–] o7___o7@awful.systems 43 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

Following proton's recent development has been like seeing a friend become way too interested in gas station drugs

[–] the_q@lemmy.zip 8 points 15 hours ago

Introduce money into a system guarantees that system will degrade.

[–] SadSadSatellite@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 17 hours ago