We've actually been working on something similar. Our goal is to make it as dead simple to send a letter as possible in USA. We'd love any feedback people have!
Feel free to drop us a note at support@papermail.in if you have thoughts :)
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#32I used a service similar to this in 2011 after I moved back from Australia to UK. Australian banks charge a monthly fee if you don't deposit your salary into the account so after a few months I realized my now-defunct Australian current account was very close to $0 (I had left a few dollars in there when I left). I emailed them and asked them to close the account to which they replied I needed to send a snail-mail le…
I wonder if it was just the scanned signature, or was it something else about the service you used that made the physical letter look untrustworthy.
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#33Earlier quoted context omitted.
https://moxie.org/software/sslstrip/ The attitude of "it's cool, only use SSL for the sensitive parts" hasn't been true for a decade.
Again, that looks like it needs to be sitting somewhere between the end user and the webserver. I don't disagree that it is possible to mess with http traffic in flight if it's not encrypted. I do disagree that a) there are bad guys between me and the http://catpictures.com right now and b) They have targeted me with malicious cat pictures that will cause damage somehow. My sites that allow logins are all https only.…
It's not just about protecting sensitive information. It's about a litany of other reasons. Censorship, integrity, protect against tampering/malware campaigns, etc. These articles explain it better than I can.
https://www.troyhunt.com/heres-why-your-static-website-needs...
https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/52856/why-do-we...
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#34We've actually been working on something similar. Our goal is to make it as dead simple to send a letter as possible in USA. We'd love any feedback people have! https://papermail.in Feel free to drop us a note at support@papermail.in if you have thoughts :)
You should have a text box that I can type in, I don't want to always have to prepare a PDF.
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#35This website isn't new, as most comments say. However, I've been using in the past a lot of times and works very very well. In fact, I used a lot the option to add a return stamp so if the other person wants to reply (mostly offices), they don't need to pay anything.
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#36Earlier quoted context omitted.
Again, that looks like it needs to be sitting somewhere between the end user and the webserver. I don't disagree that it is possible to mess with http traffic in flight if it's not encrypted. I do disagree that a) there are bad guys between me and the http://catpictures.com right now and b) They have targeted me with malicious cat pictures that will cause damage somehow. My sites that allow logins are all https only.…
Can you give a reason for not using https in the age of LetsEncrypt? And yes, the point of MITM is that there has to be a malicious actor in the middle. This is mainly a threat when using public WiFi, like at an airport or a coffee shop. It's absolutely trivial for some bored individual to run SSLstrip for funsies and distribute malware through any HTTP connections. Also, an attacker doesn't need to somehow create ma…
I know you probably have a better understanding of how vpns work than I do, but the blanket statement that using a VPN makes your connections immune to MITM is not correct.
True, an attacker needs to find some other link between the terminus of your VPN and the target site to MITM, and true, those links are orders of magnitude harder to compromise usually.
But a VPN is not magic pixie dust that you sprinkle on your laptop and now you don't have to worry about security anymore.
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#37We've actually been working on something similar. Our goal is to make it as dead simple to send a letter as possible in USA. We'd love any feedback people have! https://papermail.in Feel free to drop us a note at support@papermail.in if you have thoughts :)
You should have a text box that I can type in, I don't want to always have to prepare a PDF.
Yes! That'll probably be our next feature! Thanks for checking it out
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#38I tried to do this about 12 years or so ago... domain was quickymail.com.... I probably gave up too soon.
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#39It uses http, not https for this -_-
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#40I've been looking the something that's kind of the opposite of this. I'd like to be able to use an address in my city for all my mail - when a letter arrives I'd like to get a scan as an email attachment.
I usually get parcels delivered to amazon lockers or my office since I'm out all day.