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  1. Duress Password that wipes emails

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    Under review  ·  32 comments  ·  Accounts & payments » Accounts  ·  Admin →
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    Herrn Wind commented  · 

    Absolutely Brilliant Idea!

  2. Read receipt / confirmation

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    98 comments  ·  Proton Mail » New feature  ·  Admin →
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    Herrn Wind commented  · 

    F,

    Read Receipt will notify you when the recipient has opened your email. I do not know which other email services provide that, but I am sure there are a couple. Typically, one would use a third-party tool to get a Read Receipt.

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  3. Proton Chat - Messaging app

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    Planned  ·  353 comments  ·  General ideas » New features  ·  Admin →
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    Herrn Wind commented  · 

    I want to apologize ahead for the lengthy comment.

    Protonmail team, you will want to keep this feature VERY, VERY SIMPLE and abandon any ideas of making the chat social like Google Hangouts or Facebook Messenger. I recommend OTR and a new handshake every session for PFS.

    "Social" media is the scourge of privacy. A person wanting to keep something private between them and another person wouldn't tell their business to the most talkative person in their group. At the most, they would just invite a select few to their group. A chat feature is no different. The Rule of Thirds applies to chats: with more than 3 persons, most individuals lose focus, the subject matter branches off into different tangents, some walk away from the chat and return later, some want to dominate the chat, people that walked away ask "What did I miss?" and someone has to summarize to them, etc... It becomes a mess! Email would better serve that group.

    If the following does not complicate the code, chats should have a default self-destruct setting, or the feature should only show x number of lines of the chat and anything beyond that is automatically wiped as the chat progresses (the latter maybe not so much as some people are not very economical with words).

    Why self-destruct? There should be absolutely no reason a chat should be saved when an email can serve that purpose.

    Things to consider when creating a chat feature:

    * No Social Media
    * OTR & PFS
    * Self-destruct Default
    * Rule of Thirds
    * Simplicity
    * Should do what cannot be answered with "There's email for that." i.e. A chat feature should do what email cannot: instant, real-time, etc...

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