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Felony – An open-source PGP keychain
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#102Hi I'm Henry, the creator of Felony I’ve had a passion for politics, history, and programming since the age of 12 growing up in a suburb of Chicago. During my freshman year, I developed an interest in software. A couple of apps and hackathons (programming competitions) later, I was working on my own startups when I made the leap to drop out of high school to become a software engineer at a venture-backed tech startup…
Please change the name of the app. I'm Swedish, and to me the name sounds really repelling. Maybe someone could fork the application and rename it to something cool that I can use?
You seriously can't do this yourself? Clone the repo and change the name using find-and-replace and run install. No need to insult.
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"Felony is the first PGP app that's easy for anyone to use" How about calling it "Freedom"
Chucking my naming idea, call it rights. Everybody wants rights and nobody sane is against having rights when rights means their right the free speech, their right to a fair trial etc.
good idea!
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#104Okay, I'll be the contrarian one: I HATE the name. There have already been trends in the mainstream and right wing media that "If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear", that the NSA only monitors the communication of criminals, and that things like iPhone encryption help terrorists first. With that in mind, can you imagine the reaction that the average lay-person will have when they see a clickbait head…
Nor does it help the cause of explaining to the general public that encryption is something they do use and should use in their own lives.
There's been a rule: encryption must have terrible UX. Most encryption stuff even has awful UX by command line Linux hacker standards.
Now we have an effort otherwise but... cannot... resist... doing... something... to make it unfriendly...
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I think folks should chill on the name. It's just a word which makes it stand out as a product. Good job !!
In that famous Goldman Sachs "theft" case, use of a tool called "Subversion" (which any IT person knows is just vanilla version control software) was taken by the FBI as evidence of malicious intent. Just saying.
Here's the article about it I found mentioned in HN comments before: http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2013/09/michael-lewis-goldman...
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#107Earlier quoted context omitted.
Nor does it help the cause of explaining to the general public that encryption is something they do use and should use in their own lives.
An "edgy" name can get you in real trouble. The brilliant programmer Dan Farmer [1] who developed the security tool that he named SATAN [2] was fired from his job when he published his program. If you haven't heard of SATAN, it was the most important network security analysis tool in the late 1990s. I feel certain that the name was the critical factor that made his company so nervous. For a while he had two different…
Artists and musicians can get away with invoking (haha) such names for effect. But tech despite its abandonment of the suit is still pretty straight laced and Ivy League at heart and interfaces with a high corporate and financial world that is even more so.
It's okay if your audience is strictly other tech people, but this is built for general use.
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Suggestions and/or concepts you (OP) want to evoke: Patriot Freedom Liberty Good Citizen Free Speech America Fourth Amendment Secure In Papers Right To Privacy
I'll add a counter point and say that I like the name. Politicians have a history of inverting meanings, e.g. Patriot Act, Affordable Health Care Act, etc. -- the public is almost conditioned to invert logic to understand things at this point. Personally, I find the terms above to be patronizing and even suspicious in the political context. The mental operation of inverting the word felony is kind of interesting and…
If you're going to invert meanings, you need to be careful about the polarity. The way politicians (and corporations) do it is, as you observe, to take something bad (that they want to support) and put a good label on it; for obvious reasons, this is a winning move. What's going on here is taking something good and putting a bad label on it; for reasons which should be equally obvious, this is a losing move.
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#109Earlier quoted context omitted.
Suggestions and/or concepts you (OP) want to evoke: Patriot Freedom Liberty Good Citizen Free Speech America Fourth Amendment Secure In Papers Right To Privacy
I'll add a counter point and say that I like the name. Politicians have a history of inverting meanings, e.g. Patriot Act, Affordable Health Care Act, etc. -- the public is almost conditioned to invert logic to understand things at this point. Personally, I find the terms above to be patronizing and even suspicious in the political context. The mental operation of inverting the word felony is kind of interesting and…
That's not ironic inversion of meaning. That's straight up deception.
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+1 for Liberty That's the concept that encapsulates privacy, speech, etc. The America-centric names are less appealing to me, since many equate "America" with the federal government, which is definitely not the friend of liberty / free speech / privacy.
+1 for 'Privacy'. Liberty is America centric. And privacy is more specific.
> "Liberty is America centric."
I wouldn't say it belongs to any nation, though if it had to belong to one it'd probably be France. The first two things that come to mind when I think of the word 'liberty' are both of French origin: