Brilliant - thanks. I’ve been doing a massive, slow moving data and security clean up and was going to document it for friends and activists. Happy to have somewhere else to point to. Stoked about protons expanded capacity.
That's amazing Nicola! Good luck with the security & data grind.
I'm really glad you like the resources we offered, I hope your friends will find them informative as well.
As for me I have also tried Proton Pass for the last 2 weeks and it definitely feels nice, one of the more polished Proton products.
What I'm really looking forward to is Proton Docs, as it's something I have been missing in my ecosystem. Will maybe write a review about it when it's out.
Yep. Nice and simple. No glitches. I miss a few LastPass features but more than happy to give $$ to a (now non profit) org trying to fill this massive need.
There is such a huge gap between geeks who are skilled enough to run everything Linux, from GitHub etc to ppl without that skill set who need intuitive easy to use products.
Very much looking forward to docs too. In the meantime it’s open office and cryptpad. For years I was hoping thoughtworks were going to come thru with the holy grail for activist needs - a secure CMS but it languished.
It’s really interesting - I’ve used an iPhone for a while after being gifted one years ago & just got a back up android for work - even looked for one without bloatware but the insidiousness of the Google system wide privacy violation from maybe 10 years ago has blown my mind!
It does my head in how many activist groups are actively collaborating with the state pretty much by using Google - and the thing people don’t seem to get is the data is not just already likely to be used via 5 eyes agreements but what could it extend to in future? Terrifying how detailed a profile govt will get from buying corporate surveillance data. Haha - lotsa feels!
LastPass has been absolutely terrible, I wouldn't host anything sensitive on it and I wouldn't even touch it in it's current state. Literally anything else is currently a better option because of all the data breaches and poor security practices.
Cryptpad has also been what I have been using, very handy but I would rather have docs ready in my already existing Proton account provided it's clean and has decent features.
And speaking of new Proton products they apparently just released a bitcoin wallet??? for some reason. Not the best step imo but I'm still intrigued to see where that goes.
There are currently as far as I know very very few phones that run Android and are shipped without any or with very few bloatware apps. Your only two options are removing the bloatware yourself which is a nightmare (trust me, I've done this on way too many of my devices) and to flash a custom OS which I wouldn't expect a non-tech-savvy user to be able to or to have the motivation to to do so. The state of "bloatwearing" everything has been is just sad to see. And it doesn't get better on laptops and desktops especially with Windows.
The last point is completely true, especially with govs now using AI to sift through, analyze and store all the data in a more efficient and "profiley" way. We have a long battle to fight.. But I'm hopeful that we can figure it out.
Great that it can be of help to you! I have been playing around with Proton's new functionality, like Pass for a couple of months now and so far I am impressed by its ease of use. Separate emails for different shopping accounts, then filtering emails into folders based on the aliases I chose, really handy to avoid spam.
Brilliant - thanks. I’ve been doing a massive, slow moving data and security clean up and was going to document it for friends and activists. Happy to have somewhere else to point to. Stoked about protons expanded capacity.
That's amazing Nicola! Good luck with the security & data grind.
I'm really glad you like the resources we offered, I hope your friends will find them informative as well.
As for me I have also tried Proton Pass for the last 2 weeks and it definitely feels nice, one of the more polished Proton products.
What I'm really looking forward to is Proton Docs, as it's something I have been missing in my ecosystem. Will maybe write a review about it when it's out.
Yep. Nice and simple. No glitches. I miss a few LastPass features but more than happy to give $$ to a (now non profit) org trying to fill this massive need.
There is such a huge gap between geeks who are skilled enough to run everything Linux, from GitHub etc to ppl without that skill set who need intuitive easy to use products.
Very much looking forward to docs too. In the meantime it’s open office and cryptpad. For years I was hoping thoughtworks were going to come thru with the holy grail for activist needs - a secure CMS but it languished.
It’s really interesting - I’ve used an iPhone for a while after being gifted one years ago & just got a back up android for work - even looked for one without bloatware but the insidiousness of the Google system wide privacy violation from maybe 10 years ago has blown my mind!
It does my head in how many activist groups are actively collaborating with the state pretty much by using Google - and the thing people don’t seem to get is the data is not just already likely to be used via 5 eyes agreements but what could it extend to in future? Terrifying how detailed a profile govt will get from buying corporate surveillance data. Haha - lotsa feels!
LastPass has been absolutely terrible, I wouldn't host anything sensitive on it and I wouldn't even touch it in it's current state. Literally anything else is currently a better option because of all the data breaches and poor security practices.
Cryptpad has also been what I have been using, very handy but I would rather have docs ready in my already existing Proton account provided it's clean and has decent features.
And speaking of new Proton products they apparently just released a bitcoin wallet??? for some reason. Not the best step imo but I'm still intrigued to see where that goes.
There are currently as far as I know very very few phones that run Android and are shipped without any or with very few bloatware apps. Your only two options are removing the bloatware yourself which is a nightmare (trust me, I've done this on way too many of my devices) and to flash a custom OS which I wouldn't expect a non-tech-savvy user to be able to or to have the motivation to to do so. The state of "bloatwearing" everything has been is just sad to see. And it doesn't get better on laptops and desktops especially with Windows.
The last point is completely true, especially with govs now using AI to sift through, analyze and store all the data in a more efficient and "profiley" way. We have a long battle to fight.. But I'm hopeful that we can figure it out.
Great that it can be of help to you! I have been playing around with Proton's new functionality, like Pass for a couple of months now and so far I am impressed by its ease of use. Separate emails for different shopping accounts, then filtering emails into folders based on the aliases I chose, really handy to avoid spam.
Yes, love that. Being able to have just one email address and platform of connected tools is great.