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Honestly I'd like to see one of the webmail providers do a decent attempt at gpg. The web migrated from a primarily unencrypted state to an encrypted one - it's not impossible with the right UX.
ProtonMail?
Communication between ProtonMail customers, you still have to trust that their UI hasn't been MiTM'd.
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Encryption, in email? lol... This is what happens when end-to-end encryption isn't the default in communications software. All email providers are vulnerable to this bar none.
Honestly I'd like to see one of the webmail providers do a decent attempt at gpg. The web migrated from a primarily unencrypted state to an encrypted one - it's not impossible with the right UX.
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The fall of Google finance is astounding. You can go to https://finance.google.com and search for "Slack" with no results. You can search for "WORK" (Slack's stock symbol) with no results. You have to actually type "NYSE:Work" to have it show up in the search results. It's astonishing.
Agreed, Google Finance is garbage. I talked with a Google recruiter and asked if there were any positions at Google Finance, and she thought I meant in the Finance department, not on that particular site. There's so much that can be done with it, and Google has abandoned it.
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> There's so much that can be done with it, and Google has abandoned it Does anyone know the inside ballgame on this one?
Simply- google has outgrown it. No inside info but it’s unlikely that finance.google.com will ever grow past $xxx million/billion revenue per year, so its more profitable for google to keep rolling the dice on chat services.
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Just for the sake of feedback, I found your post confusing. It's not really clear to me what you are saying exactly.
Presumably, this person is airing frustration with common responses to privacy oriented discussions he or she has experienced as participant and/or vicariously. He or she has characterized them ending in ad homenims, whereby the privacy minded individual is construed as politically or intellectually unmoored, similar to Alex Jones. Spedru posits the covert and exposed deviants within companies, that we've exchanged o…
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Everything has to get decrypted at some point, right? I try not to think about what would happen if a Google employee decided to leak everyone's search history.
The fact that it hasn't happened yet when there are so many Google employees suggests that it's infeasibly difficult.
I had a YouTube employee login to my account, defaced my video titles and description. And Google wouldn’t do a thing about it. Don’t trust FAANGs and other ‘wangs’ with your private content !
It's sobering to think about this in tandem with the fact that people in the IQ bracket for “engineer” tend to get away with crimes. Honestly, though, at least this can be turned into a concrete example to shoot down “if you don't have anything to hide...” and the like. The banal, lascivious panopticon elicits a real disgust response that might be moving, as opposed to the “shut up you alex jones weirdo” that sticks…
Let me try to rephrase this in a simpler way: This is even more troubling because smart people are less likely to be caught. At least, like Snowden's leaks, this is proof that privacy extremists aren't conspiracy nuts, and hopefully it will open a few eyes to the real danger of giving up privacy. Other comments are right: stop using big words and write plain sentences.
The word "engineer" is critical to the first sentence, and your version has no translation of "banal, lascivious panopticon".
The roundabout structure of the sentences is much more relevant than the use of a big word or two.
Chris Putnam, who used to work at Facebook, did almost exactly the same thing with videos.
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Everything has to get decrypted at some point, right? I try not to think about what would happen if a Google employee decided to leak everyone's search history.
The fact that it hasn't happened yet when there are so many Google employees suggests that it's infeasibly difficult.