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Felony – An open-source PGP keychain

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Re: Felony – An open-source PGP keychain

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Post by deanCommie »

Okay, 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 headline or morning news report that says "A new app called Felony allows ISIS and online pedophiles to communicate in secret with ease."

It looks like a great app, and I will honestly use it.

But I don't think the name helps the cause of promoting easy and default end-to-end encryption for all to remove the implication that the only people that use it have something to hide.

Re: Felony – An open-source PGP keychain

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Post by mnw21cam »

henryboldi wrote: post #9
brian_cloutier wrote: post #4

It's not obvious from the readme, how does key exchange work?

Once your key is generated you can click the 'copy' icon to the right of your name in the header. After that you can share the key on any platform you like, including Keybase.io :)

How does it integrate into the web of trust?

Re: Felony – An open-source PGP keychain

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Post by henryboldi »

cdnsteve wrote: post #16
henryboldi wrote: post #2

Hi 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…

This looks like an interesting project but has a poor name choice. If it's targeted at non technical users, it may actually prevent them from using it, out of fear that just using it is illegal.

It's not targeted at entirely non technical users. That's why it's on Hacker News ;)

Re: Felony – An open-source PGP keychain

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Post by henryboldi »

yoklov wrote: post #17
henryboldi wrote: post #2

Hi 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…

You dropped out of high school your freshman year? i mean you seem smart enough to get by but uh, wow. (fwiw i say this as a college dropout who doesnt regret it at all)

after sophomore year. yay dropouts!

Re: Felony – An open-source PGP keychain

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Post by K0nserv »

Really cool, it'd be nice to have a few more screenshots or maybe a video of the usage. It's not fully clear if Felony actually sends the message or only encrypts it and allows you to send the encrypted message in another medium.

Re: Felony – An open-source PGP keychain

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Post by jackweirdy »

deanCommie wrote: post #21

Okay, 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.

Re: Felony – An open-source PGP keychain

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Post by masukomi »

jackweirdy wrote: post #28
deanCommie wrote: post #21

Okay, 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.

Absolutely horrible choice of a name. There's so much BS regarding the use of encryption and it keeps coming up in criminal cases, that normal folks are going to avoid using a think that might somehow be linked with a felony.

Re: Felony – An open-source PGP keychain

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Post by grenoire »

deanCommie wrote: post #21

Okay, 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…

Fully agreed. The name sounds 'cool,' but may end up being the thing that leads to the project's early death. Completely counter-productive.
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