Chris Neglia
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Work on this feature request is underway, starting with iOS.
🗓️ A new calendar invite widget shows the main event info in all emails that contain event invites. Tapping on it takes you to the #ProtonCalendar app directly from your inbox.
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Banking services and online services seem to be requiring SMS in order to use their services. Without it, you cannot use their services. I have been without a mobile phone for 5 yrs, and twitter locked me out for security and I've been unable to get back into my twitter account because it demands I provide an SMS phone number.
Other sites are like this, especially financial ones. This means that AT&T is really insinuated into all these services, and THAT means heavy use of SMS means that the NSA for some reason needs access to your banking and social media also. Not sure why. (AT&T is the private face of the NSA, and AT&T fundamentally controls all of SMS)
I'd like an SMS-compatible service for Protonmail, to act as a 2 factor authentication in order to make these services that only offer SMS as a means to get into your financial and social media.
I know that protonmail is not a VOIP company, but an email company. However, I live in a cabin and have no mobile phone and I don't want a mobile phone, because I am so remote there are no cellphone towers that are available within 5 mi of my cabin. So I have to use VOIP as my landline, using a very minimal broadband point-to-point long distance microwave (wifi) solution which is sufficient.
I notice that banking and other online services are absolutely tonedeaf to rural people, and more people are moving to rural from cities because of covid. They are in for a HUGE surprise: internet is still spotty and difficult in 2021. So is cell coverage.
This SMS reliance effectively means that if you can't get to a cell tower then you cannot use these services, because you cannot use 2 factor authentication via SMS.
This is a problem that has effectively 'frozen out' rural people from crytpocurrency banks like coinbase, online only banks like ally.com, and twitter, facebook, google and other services that heavily rely on SMS
This is a problem. I kind of hate SMS because of this, but Proton could come up with a solution for those of us that are frozen out.
I am guessing its far more than you could realize, but maybe research it if it sounds like a service you'd want to offer.
All you would really need is secure SIP provider that could handle SMS and then could then encrypt it in an envelope that would hide all disambiguation details, the content AND the phone number; and of course a database where the relationship between the sms number and the email address is stored
You could even have the SMS number stored in the users protonmail account and does a "lookup" of any sms messages in a database using the hash of the encrypted phone number to match the hashed number in the database, and make it user initiated
So if someone is waiting for an SMS message, they can go and click a button "look for messages" and then in their application they can have the application send the SMS 2 factor message
and for 5-10 minutes after the user presses the button, it will look for any SMS messages in the database. This 'user initiated' process means that proton won't have to use so much resource to constantly poll for sms messages. SMS messages just acts like a shared inbox, where the hash of people's sms phone number acts like a "post office box for sms"