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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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A backdoor "for the good guys only" is simply not possible. (tutanota.com)

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

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[–] wandermind@sopuli.xyz 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's the main reason I didn't even consider them. "Proton(mail)" just sounds more professional when used in actually important contexts and is easier for people to get right.

In general, I've noticed that a lot of privacy focused software, particularly FOSS, are really bad at choosing names which make people want to use them. They tend to have names which might appeal to some crypto-nerds, but which make them sound just weird or questionable or niche to the average user. Like (the precursor to) Signal the messaging app used to be called TextSecure. There's no way I would've gotten my parents and siblings to use something called TextSecure. The name just sounds so geeky and niche.

[–] SnipingNinja@slrpnk.net 4 points 1 year ago

Tbf Google is also a weird name, Yahoo was also a bit weird even if not entirely, there probably are more examples but it's not just that the name is not great but also that these things aren't advertised as well