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GitHub content, profit website, automatic over air updates, content like “Earn $5 in Secluso credit for every qualifying referred pre-order.”
Just sounds like not actually secure marketing itself as super secure.
I could dig more, but i don’t care much.
Edit: also how super fast they commented on your comment with a copy paste answer. Or just a bot
I think they're just a privacy-focused startup that just wants to make a living off their work
And that makes them a corporation that cannot be trusted. Because if they have any data or access in any fashion… it’s not actually private.
And from what I can see it’s two people? Who are they. I want to know where they live and how they vote. It’s a lot of faith in the very very unknown. How will they handle government data requests?
You can already run DietPi and cam software for a very secure camera setup on your own for like $40 per camera (I dunno about price hikes lately)
Matrix. Bitwarden. Nextcloud. There are many examples of open-source, self-hosted applications that have for-profit companies that offer to host them for you as a service. Now if you use one of those Nextcloud providers to store your notes, can that providers read all your data? Of course. But for people who don't want to self-host, it's often a more trusted option than Google.
And... people are now wondering just how fast Bitwarden can speedrun late stage capitalism with recent changes. And realizing just how much data Bitwarden Corp actually has.
We go through cycles of this. Company A is bad but Company B is good... and it is almost always based on marketing. Google used to be AMAZING because "do no evil" and "they gave me a bunch of gigs of email storage!".
Hell, some of us might be old enough to remember when Spideroak was the bee's knees and totally secure... until people started realizing there were issues with what they were saying. They have no copies of your encryption key... but you can recover your password. And then there was the brief debacle where people realized they could download any file they had the hash for. But hey, they weren't Dropbox!
I don't think a company being involved inherently makes it bad. I don't even think a company that keeps keys on their servers are inherently bad. Data... gets murky but that is more because of the logistics of what that means for hosting and operating costs.
But it IS important to actually assess a product before using it and to understand the risks. Every year or so people lose their shit at Protonmail when they find out that, contrary to widespread belief, Proton Corp isn't going to serve a century in a black site for their customers. And every single time, people point out that Proton never said they would. They are VERY upfront about what they do and don't provide and... the reality is that most of the privacy oriented benefits of that service are in that they don't require any kind of authentication to create an account. Which... is akward when you realize it is better to NOT pay if privacy is your concern.
But what makes a random start-up with no meaningful (professional) footprint "a more trusted option than Google"?
You’re not listening.