Privacy apps - Wire, Sudo, etc

Hardware Librem 5
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Hi all,

Hope everyone is having a good day.
Here’s what one of my main concerns is at the moment. Apps like Sudo, Wire, Privacy.com and ProtonMail - do you think that they would be available on the Librem?

That would be my dream if so. Obviously part of that is the development team for those respective apps. I imagine the developers are probably keeping an eye on the Librem platform and are probably planning ahead. Just some food for thought.

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There were some intentions and encouraging statements about Purism working with Open Whisper Systems to port Signal to PureOS but I haven’t seen anything in practice.

Not a criticism, just an observation.

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Hello ! about protonmail - they currently only have dedicated apps for Apple and Android but they will probably make on for librem 5 once it takes off. that is because purism have their own app-store.

ProtonMail can be accessed in a classic way - through a web-browser (that means you have to trust their servers but it’s still good enough for me right now)

Patience is key if you can’t contribute code early on.

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I would be happy to use ProtonMail in the browser. Actually, I would prefer doing that. My worry would be whether it would work. But I expect if the browser is equivalent to a desktop browser in this respect, then it will work. (I was using ProtonMail in my BlackBerry 10 browser at one time, and at some point it no longer worked. I assume ProtonMail upgraded and left the unsupported BB10 behind.)

By the way, trusting ProtonMail servers would apply whether using it in browser or via app, correct?

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Depends if the app includes/evaluates code from the server or not.

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i have a bbq10 too but it’s starting to show it’s age (software wise it’s dead) hardware works ok but hey librem 5 around the corner.

study it carefully and the blog also. the code is open-source so it’s transparent for inspection. apps are more secure that normal-web-browser because of how easy it is to verify the identity.

on the hardware side they don’t say what infrastructure their on but it’s probably proprietary and locked tight under a friggin’ swiss mountain in Europe so it’s unclear how to take that … probably with a mountain of salt …