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A place to discuss privacy and freedom in the digital world.

Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by visnudeva@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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I have been using Skiff for about a year or so and was only satisfied with their email which can forward your Gmail emails and have aliases for free, the calendar app didn't notify me so it was useless but now it does and it works very well, I could also import my Tutanota calendar very easily. The drive has 10gb for free and can now download all your Google drive in one click and you can use IPFS as storage, this company is really making it easy to get out of Google with a smile.

What do you all think about it ?

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[–] miss_brainfart@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Mails being encrypted end-to-end would obviously be ideal, but yeah. How many people outside of our privacy bubble use a private service, and/or have PGP set up? How many even know what PGP is?

The messages that sit in my inbox being encrypted and not being accessed by the provider I'm using is realistically the best I can hope for.

[–] cheese_greater@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

PGP to me is literally only of any interest as a quick way to encrypt anything/files/documents (in a preferable format to zip or archives etc) in a keyfile type fashion where you need the credential and password for any given decryption and it can be done so quickly if you have a good app.

I would never use it for like email stuff, if we're talking about messaging its gotta be Signal or Threema or Matrix(Element, Session) etc. Maybe Olvid or SimpleX is interesting too but I'm open to a larger discussion of messaging and the available platforms and discussion of the nitpickier deets.

[–] SpeakinTelnet@programming.dev 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I've been told multiple times that having a @protonmail email makes me look like a conspiracy theorist, once in an interview. Privacy is way more niche than I'd hope for.

[–] BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

In an interview?

Glad they let you know their ignorance on security up front.

Seriously, do they leave their doors open for anyone to walk in, or do they use badge readers like everyone else?

[–] SpeakinTelnet@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago

Some companies don't see privacy as security. They want to know your background, when you punch in/ punch out, if you're the type of person to leak secrets over the "dark web".

Some also don't believe in privacy at all, they believe in contract. When choosing a platform they want to know if they can sue them for breaching an NDA.

I did not receive an offer from that specific interview but yeah, I admit it was odd and didn't inspire trust so I wouldn't have accepted anyway.