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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.
Problem solved, welcome to open source.
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It's not targeted at entirely non technical users. That's why it's on Hacker News ;)
"Felony is the first PGP app that's easy for anyone to use" How about calling it "Freedom"
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.
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…
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
The mental operation of inverting the word felony is kind of interesting and thought provoking, IMO.
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…
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.
Mods, could we have something descriptive added to the title? This single word doesn't really give me any idea what this about. Suggestions (taken from the link) Felony: Next Level PGP Felony: An open-source PGP keychain built on the modern web
Also, here's the link to the README file. (Nicely done!) https://github.com/henryboldi/felony/blob/master/README.md
"The accused was even using an app named Felony!"
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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.
I think folks should chill on the name. It's just a word which makes it stand out as a product. Good job !!
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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.
Fork it, name it whatever you want. Problem solved, welcome to open source.