After their shameless Synology shilling a couple of weeks ago, today Techlore is trying to sell me Proton Pass.

Is Proton Pass a bad password manager? I don’t know. It seems okay, but I have no opinion.

What I do know is that Techlore is affiliated with Proton, which makes their newest 10-minute video - in which they reveal the affiliation only at the last minute - 10 minutes of my life I’ll never get back.

Unfortunately, In the business they’re in, the merest hint of a bias kind of invalidates any advice they give. As the saying goes, when you point out other people’s body odor, you’d better make sure you took a shower yourself.

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  • ɐɥO@lemmy.ohaa.xyz
    108·
    4 months ago

    That guy also told people to use google android instead of graphene a few years ago

    • Ilandar@aussie.zone
      10·
      4 months ago

      No he didn’t, this is misinformation. Henry from Techlore explained that he was switching back to stock Android, mainly to take advantage of the Google Advanced Protection Program. The description of the video literally reads:

      As stressed in the video: This is part of my own personal journey and isn’t necessarily a recommendation for all of you.

      In the final section of the video he very clearly explains that this is his personal choice and that he is NOT recommending people copy him. He said this is an objectively bad decision for some threat models and that he was only doing it to get ahead of the curve when it came to potential security issues in the future.

        • jet@hackertalks.comEnglish
          2·
          4 months ago

          Not sure if I buy that explanation, it’s rough to say AOSP is more secure then graphene.

          If they had said trusting Google is necessary anyway, so you might as well trust them for the software and the hardware, and not introduce any extra parties. That’s a reasonable thing to say. At least that would be an interesting and defensible argument.

      • sunzu@kbin.run
        41·
        4 months ago

        I think because he sold out and i have seen other spyuber suggest some watered down bullshit. But if there is a good reason, it would be good to know.