Huge Red Flag:

/jk lol

You need a domain with enough reputation to not just get immediately flagged as spam, or sites outright refuse letting you use the email because they detect the domain as “invalid”.

They could send a stronger signal and just take control, land and confiscate, control signals isn’t encrypted for most consumer drones (nor is the video feed encrypted either).

DJI is about to get banned anyways, so they just don’t care anymore

Amateur Radio.

There is a mobile app (called “Rattlegram”) that converts a string of text to a wave of audio (played though your phone’s speaker) and then someine on the receiving end could also use this app to decode.

You can use Secure Space Encryptor (SEE) (known as Paranoia Text Encryption on iOS) which is a Open Source encryption app that can turn text into a string of ciphertext using symmetric encryption. Paste the ciphertext on Rattlegram and send it over amateur radio.

Then just decode and decrypt on the other end.

Warning: Encryption over amateur radio is illegal, this is for entertainment purposes only.

(I mean you could also just send the ciphertext over SMS 🤷‍♂️, but ham radio is cooler 😎)

Its actually worse since Zoho CEO have more control compared to Andy Yen’s 1/5 of the voice on the board, as a non-profit organization.

Contents of email are safe.

But assume IPs are compromised.

Btw, unrelated to the twitter debacle, Proton’s cloud app on Android, sucks ass. Can’t even download an entire folder, downloading more than 25 files get glitchy and not all files get downloaded. Every other cloud provider could do that.

Service =/= Software

Proton could (theoretically) hold your data hostage. Linus Torvalds could not just update linux to inject a maga banner in your desktop, or turn your os into ransomware. Even if your distro maintainer wanted to do that, you still have the final say on whether or not to update (and if you keep up with the news, you can just avoid the update and wait for someone to fork it).

Appeasement to the fascists so they don’t get banned like they did to tiktok (I assume)

I want to have a “digital notebook” on my phone that is encrypted so the threat model being someone snatching my phone when the phone is unlocked, and the app being encrypted and locked would prevent the notes being seen. That’s where the backup/export come into play, I can just restore on another device, making sure to back up the entire note database every day.

Cross platform is if in the future, I want to (for some reason) use it on a computer and continue the notes where I left off on my phone (for pc, I’m most likely using windows since I’m not that tech savvy with Linux)

Basically, platforms in order of importance:

1. Android
2. Windows
3. Maybe popular Linux distros in case I wanna try Linux sometime in the distant future

I probably won’t ever be using:

• MacOS
• iOS

so support on these platforms are not necessary

Joplin doesn’t seem to encrypt the local database, only for the cloud sync.

Yea, and Andy Yen is only one of five members on the board of the Non-Profit organization, so you’ll just have to gamble that everyone else isn’t this weird (if you still want to continue using Proton services, that is, your choice 🤷‍♂️).

I was looking at Tresorit as a potential cloud option. I mean, not becausw of the Andy Yen stupid tweets debacle, its because Proton’s mobile app is utter garbage, can’t even download an entire folder when almost every other cloud provider can.

There are also Sync.com and Icecloud but I didn’t like those. Sync.com’s app looks outdated af, Icecloud makes extraordinary claims like how AES is built by the NSA and therefore is somehow “insecure” so they use a different algorithm. So Tresorit seems like the only one left that does encryption by default. (Mega’s predecessor was shut down before, so I don’t trust them for file longevity).

Anyone else got any other suggestions for cloud storage providers?

Get the money back first, then say the reason. Don’t wanna bring up politics in case they wanna be a douche and deny refund.

I feel like I should pre-emptively switch to Keepass incase Bitwarden goes right wing.

I mean, Keepass is free open source software so the political views of the developers don’t matter as much.

Ask them for a cancellation and refund. Don’t explain the reason, just say you changed your mind, make up some excuse if they ask.

They didn’t exactly “side with fascists”, but Andy Yen, one of the board members on the Non-Profit that owns Proton AG, has very bad takes on politics, and just has a right-wing “Libertarian” vibe.

https://x.com/andyyen/status/1864436449942110660 (https://archive.is/l1WYU)

https://x.com/andyyen/status/1812442643726537182 (https://archive.is/ADc8C)

It comes preinstalled in a lot of phones

Those are typically carrier-sold phones.

Most unlocked phones purchased directly from the manufacturer (or via a retail store like BestBuy) do not have it pre-installed, and even if it is, its removable.

I don’t think he’s technically a “CEO” anymore

He was one of the founders, but Proton AG has since transitioned into being majority owned by a Non-Profit organization, and he’s only one of the five board members of that Non-Profit.