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Whiteout.io is a chrome app for email, plus an android app with key-synch between the two. It's still early stages, so it has some issues (like indexing all your emails, since fore…

Yeah, I use mailvelope with my close friends and family. It's not yet easy enough for my parents generation to "get it" but if it's set up for them they can muster through it. The …

This is very cool. Thank you for working on it. I do know a team whom you should work with: keybase.io Keybase.io have an early-level product which would help with your keyserver i…

Fair point. It's most likely nothing nefarious, but who knows, maybe they log everything and will one day face a data breach like Sony? Maybe they data mine it? IRL if somebody int…

Exactly, those media servers are in the plane.

This post assumes that GoGo are doing a MITM simply to block YouTube in order to prevent their network from being congested. My assumptions would be that 1) GoGo are blocking youtu…

I remember when people used to make these arguments with Java and PHP. "You don't need a framework, just write your JSP templates to have database calls with SQL and tons of Java c…

Good article. I wonder why Mailpile are targeting difficult use-cases such as activists, journalists, etc. It feels like every PGP provider aims for this, but OTR encryption tools …

:-) It's technically easier but organizationally more difficult and time consuming.

>> But still. OTR (and the enhanced/modified version of it TextSecure is using) is probably the easiest to use way to communicate in a reasonably secure fashion, and it'd would be …

Agreed. Going from a NZ bank to another country's bank isn't that simple anymore. Using an international currency makes it equally simple anywhere in the world. Bitcoin already has…

I assume any "no fees" clause means that they're not taking fees at this time. It doesn't mean "no fees anywhere in the system". So there very likely is a 3% fee to the user, just …

Could this work with Mailvelope? Because I prefer to send my PGP mails right from the google webmail.

+1 for using Santorum as one of the dirty words.

Have you seen the election results in France recently? FN might as well be called the "normal right" in France at this point.

Aren't Open Source privacy apps more preferable? Shouldn't we all be talking about ChatSecure, Redphone, Textsecure, Mailvelope, Cryptocat, GPG, EnigMail, etc.? And about the compa…

To the people who said that Bitcoin is a failure because it can't scale, reading this must be beautiful. Bitcoin will scale to "Visa network" levels in no time.

A veritable explosion of innovation is coming our way. This decentralized stock exchange is just a hint of what is to come. Technologies using bitcoin, and technologies built on bi…

:-) Well said. I read this after I posted elsewhere on this thread about how the price drop is caused by adoption so in fact we are buying _utility_ with the value that we lost. On…

Bitcoin has lost some value recently, yes, but what it's bought with that loss is increased merchant adoption. Currently merchants instantly sell bitcoin which causes the downwards…

Today. Yes, today that's the limitation. But don't confuse the current stage of development for the future product. When twitter launched it couldn't handle much, today it's got ph…

I recall reading that myspace in the super early days used to have prostitutes and cocain at their Christmas party.

Good point. This app would make more sense with bitcoin in order to avoid the fees, and would have several benefits over paying rent online through a bank (or over having to write …

So then could Reddit and HN be considered more addictive than Heroin? In all seriousness.

I agree. This sounds like the same reaction. People were like "oh this is stupid because it's different". Turns out it did solve the needs of a different interface. HUD + Unity (ju…