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Really like his 'The Murders in the Rue Morgue'

It's not just him.

The current wisdom is to have specific tools/constructions for specific purposes, so as to eliminate/reduce footguns and to incorporate modern cryptography.

Edit: https://latacora.micro.blog/2019/07/16/the-pgp-problem.html

This looks really good.

How about bhphotovideo?

It's actually self-congratulating, while deprecating others.

At a lunch for female journalists and scientists, Hunt gave a speech...

"It's strange that such a chauvinist monster like me has been asked to speak to women scientists. Let me tell you about my trouble with girls. Three things happen when they are in the lab: you fall in love with them, they fall in love with you, and when you criticise them they cry. Perhaps we should make separate labs for boys and girls? Now, seriously, I'm impressed by the economic development of Korea. And women scientists played, without a doubt, an important role in it. Science needs women, and you should do science, despite all the obstacles, and despite monsters like me."

That is not a joke.

// This has been done with other similar apps in the past.

Such as?

Also HTTPS Everywhere by EFF, which can also be used for example to redirect from reddit.com to old.reddit.com.

Also Mozilla's own extensions - 'Firefox Multi-Account Containers' and 'Facebook Container'.

Enabling 'disappearing messages' will help I think.

croc wasn't recommended by people on HN who knew something about cryptography, and they actually warned against it.

They recommended Brian Warner's magic-wormhole, Signal, Tarsnap, age, Signify, Minisign, libsodium.

For webwormhole.io, it's server is a weak spot:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23024833

The problem with this is it's only as secure as the password, and most people choose weak passwords.

Edit: Another is you need to manually enable the checkmark to 'encrypt file names'. Otherwise all file names are in the clear.

TLDR at the bottom.

It seems the answer is Brian Warner's magic-wormhole. You're gonna see lots of file transfer sites with wormhole in their name, but if you want security you should use the original one, which is BW's m-w.

It is implemented in Python [1], so it's hard to install.

So someone made a Go version of it [2] that has binaries for windows, Mac, Linux, BSD etc. But it's command line so maybe not suitable for lay people.

So another person made a GUI for it that also has binaries for all OS [3].

Also there is an android app [4]. Someone needs to implement an iOS one.

[1] https://github.com/magic-wormhole/magic-wormhole/

[2] https://github.com/psanford/wormhole-william/

[3] https://github.com/Jacalz/wormhole-gui/

[4] https://github.com/psanford/wormhole-william-mobile/

TLDR: ask them to install [5] and [6].

[5] https://github.com/Jacalz/wormhole-gui/releases/

(click on 'Assets' under 'Latest release' and download the zip or tar.gz for your OS)

[6] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=io.sanford.wor...

Try it, it's usage is cute and really feels like magic.

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Edit: Discussion from few days ago. The creator is in the comments.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27262193