• Bobby Byrne@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    I’m on the fence about this since how would proton verify that “best practices” were followed? They are a privacy focused product and a feature like that could be used to decrease their services privacy. This author would likely implement best practices and many other likely would too, but say a competitor wanted to prove that their product was more secure, a feature like that could enable a competitor to showcase a security “flaw”. And since headlines are all people read these days it would be damaging.

    The feature the author described would be great but ProtonMail would need to make it fool-proof and temper-proof which requires a lot of Dev time and effort. I’m still waiting on proton bridge to work with calendar and contacts. Or contacts birthdays to show up in my calendar.

    Like I said, its a good feature, but its likely a large ask for a niche group of customers.

    • dan@lemm.ee
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      1 year ago

      Eh, I don’t think it’s be a big deal. Slap a giant warning on it, all good. Super common on all sorts of platforms. Anyone trying to claim their encryption doesn’t work because they have a (scarily labelled) option to disable it can be easily demonstrated to be disingenuous.

      And worst case if someone does disable it but doesn’t implement their own then their email I just falls back to… the same as any other platform.

      They might not want to take the time to build it, but I think what this dude is asking for is a totally reasonable thing.