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Really like his 'The Murders in the Rue Morgue'

It's not just him.

The current wisdom is to have specific tools/constructions for specific purposes, so as to eliminate/reduce footguns and to incorporate modern cryptography. Edit: https://latacora.…

This looks really good.

How about bhphotovideo?

It's actually self-congratulating, while deprecating others.

At a lunch for female journalists and scientists, Hunt gave a speech... "It's strange that such a chauvinist monster like me has been asked to speak to women scientists. Let me tel…

// This has been done with other similar apps in the past. Such as?

Also HTTPS Everywhere by EFF, which can also be used for example to redirect from reddit.com to old.reddit.com. Also Mozilla's own extensions - 'Firefox Multi-Account Containers' a…

Enabling 'disappearing messages' will help I think.

croc wasn't recommended by people on HN who knew something about cryptography, and they actually warned against it. They recommended Brian Warner's magic-wormhole, Signal, Tarsnap,…

For webwormhole.io, it's server is a weak spot: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23024833

The problem with this is it's only as secure as the password, and most people choose weak passwords. Edit: Another is you need to manually enable the checkmark to 'encrypt file nam…

TLDR at the bottom. It seems the answer is Brian Warner's magic-wormhole. You're gonna see lots of file transfer sites with wormhole in their name, but if you want security you sho…