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Re: Show HN: Wheesper – Start an anonymous discussion with a link

#2
Great to be able to keep data storage local.. see my recent comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48967684 .. so basically P2P chat from within the browser.

Also, like many paste-bins, perhaps avoid asking for emails in sign-ups and be able to set expiry times on chats. Dead-man switch expire? Another idea would be to accept emails as a way to post into a discussion without viewing the site and enabling rss to keep track of new comments.

It'd be weird if someone could forward an email of a long discussion and have it format correctly for public web-viewing. Smartdox? I guess the LLMs would like slurping it all up. As long as names could be auto-redacted, it may end up being used - confidentiality agreements are the issue. Maybe as an email backup for important threads with the public thing as an option?

Once an email is received a reply is sent asking for micro-payment. EmailStash. SeedyBackup. DoxNation. DoxNow.

Re: Show HN: Wheesper – Start an anonymous discussion with a link

#4

This looks cool but why do I meed an email to start an "anonymous" discussion? Also no mention on whether this is end to end encrypted, can you comment on that?

Hey! How do you suggest I should do the permissions for creating a discussion? Nothing at all?

Re: Show HN: Wheesper – Start an anonymous discussion with a link

#8
> You may not use Wheesper to:

>

> break the law, facilitate illegal activity, or violate another person's rights;

> threaten, harass, stalk, exploit, or seriously harm another person;

> share child sexual abuse material, intimate imagery without consent, or sexually exploit any person;

> publish another person's private or identifying information without a lawful basis;

> impersonate someone, commit fraud, deceive participants, or conduct phishing;

> infringe intellectual property, confidentiality, privacy, or other proprietary rights;

> distribute malware, harmful code, spam, or unsolicited bulk messages;

> probe, disrupt, overload, scrape, reverse engineer, or bypass access controls, rate limits, bot protections, or security measures, except where applicable law expressly permits security research; or

> help another person do any of the above.

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...then what the heck do we need this service for?

(Obviously, this comment is meant as a joke.)

Re: Show HN: Wheesper – Start an anonymous discussion with a link

#9

This looks cool but why do I meed an email to start an "anonymous" discussion? Also no mention on whether this is end to end encrypted, can you comment on that?

Hey! How do you suggest I should do the permissions for creating a discussion? Nothing at all?

There are no need for permissions if the link per discussion is obscure and you use HTTPS. In that case the link is the password

Re: Show HN: Wheesper – Start an anonymous discussion with a link

#10

This looks cool but why do I meed an email to start an "anonymous" discussion? Also no mention on whether this is end to end encrypted, can you comment on that?

Hey! How do you suggest I should do the permissions for creating a discussion? Nothing at all?

I'll vibe code a better one that's actually anonymous and stores nothing on disk, then open-source it.
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