I like the idea of this, and would love to give it a try. I would say, however, that the documentation/instructions are a little bit barebones. I know its just early days, but as a newcomer to node it is pretty difficult to know how to use this. You may also want to include a PGP 101 (or a link to a good get-started guide) because it isn't really common knowledge either
Felony – An open-source PGP keychain
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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…
> the public is almost conditioned to invert logic
Only a Hacker News type of person will invert the logic. The general public won't.
Ask your neighbor to guess the purpose of the Banking Secrecy Act [1]. Does it protect your money and your financial privacy, or does it make banks snitch on you and strip away financial privacy?
Even I was surprised that the name of the law and the actual text are exact opposites.
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#73What's the state of WebCrypto APIs, and is it already possible to avoid ciphers written and deployed in JS?
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#74Okay, 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…
This is one of my pet peeves, calling it felony is utterly stupid and childish. Encryption and the use of encryption are serious matters and their PR should be handled with the utmost seriousness.
The first picture that came to mind is this http://i.imgur.com/EyFFRsa.gifv
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#75Earlier 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 disagree that "America" and "Fourth Amendment" are a good concept, unless you target a very limited subset of humanity. Patriotism is something I wouldn't like either, I think that's a rather odd concept (and not related to liberty, freedom or security). Good Citizen sounds like it comes straight from a famous book inventing doublespeak. Even Free Speech is not a global concept - the way you capitalize it I assume…
Other names have a funny coincidence: Secure In Papers and Right To Privacy. Both SIP and RTP are existing protocols for chat/calls/presence on the internet. Most voip phones use them, so if people started using the initialisms, it could confuse some people in the context of internet message exchange.
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#76Hi 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…
Will this thing ever use less than 130MB of RAM? If so, how do you plan to do that?
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Hi! The app looks great. Can you speak a bit more about the interaction? How would two people who just downloaded Felony send an encrypted message to each other?
Here's how it works... 1. Add public keys to your buddies list— A public key is like a username - Adding someone’s public key to your buddies list lets you send them messages. You can find other public keys on markets like keybase.io and darknet. 2. Encrypt a message— Select a recipient from your buddies list and compose a message. Only your chosen recipient(s) can read the message. Encrypted messages might contain s…
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#78Okay, 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…
Currently, the trending HN commentry is focused on this name, and as much I like a good naming debate, I feel it is distracting from more "significant" concerns, such as... How does the app handle encryption? Has there been a security review?How are keys handled? How are conversations persisted in the app? Does it use iCloud? Etc...
> How does the app handle encryption? Has there been a security review?
It's built on Electron, React and Redux. There is no security as it is a fundamentally insecure environment.
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#79Okay, 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…
At Aleynikov's trial, prosecutors used the name of Subversion to imply nefarious intent.
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