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garyhbutton wrote: post #9

parliament32 wrote: post #3

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Why?

I wanted to send my tax person my documents but he used email which I am a little uncomfortable using so I figured I could build an app

Reminds me of _The General Problem_ [1].

[1]: https://www.xkcd.com/974/

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Post by garyhbutton » Fri, Jan 17, 2020, 3:52 PM UTC

_august wrote: post #12

garyhbutton wrote: post #11

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I do not know. What source?

code

Here is the client source code: https://github.com/ghbutton/iron-client

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Post by garyhbutton » Fri, Jan 17, 2020, 3:53 PM UTC

g105b wrote: post #13

garyhbutton wrote: post #9

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I wanted to send my tax person my documents but he used email which I am a little uncomfortable using so I figured I could build an app

Reminds me of _The General Problem_ [1]. [1]: https://www.xkcd.com/974/

lol

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Post by asdfasdf1231 » Sat, Jan 18, 2020, 2:36 AM UTC

garyhbutton wrote: post #8

asdfasdf1231 wrote: post #4

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end to end without self hosted open source servers have (among others) a tradeoff: either opaque server you can't trust at all, or no offline messages. Which one you decided on?

I was thinking of making the client code open source (eventually) so that users can know that their privacy is respected

So you choose opaque server. At least do not hide the offline validation as deep as whatsapp and others do.

also work with linux/android distros do distribute the built from source client. otherwise, it's just more of the same