I'm just a girl, incrementing the counter on the number of times I have been sent a plaintext email from a Protonmail user telling me that the message is encrypted.

@evacide

Do you think Proton's marketing is a bit confusing here? They keep saying their emails are encrypted, I assume what they mean is that they keep the info encrypted on their server. And maybe they also use end-to-end encryption if both the sender and recipient are using Protonmail - tho I'm not really sure about this one so correct me if I'm wrong.

@futureisfoss Correct. Most people do not understand the difference between E2EE and TLS encryption.
@evacide @futureisfoss to be fair to most people, we in tech really suck at explaining how things work. And in many fields we are actively spreading miss-information in order to sell products.

@jjacobsson @evacide

"Military grade encryption" is another one šŸ˜‚ Actually anything "military-grade" is almost always used as a marketing term, not just in tech products.

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@futureisfoss @jjacobsson @evacide you mean my F15 lacrosse pole was not really the same titanium used in fighter planes? Maybe that is why they exploded on contact....
@LovesTha @futureisfoss @jjacobsson @evacide That must have been awkward during your lacrosse matches. Did you get penalized when it happened?

@roadskater @futureisfoss @jjacobsson @evacide Didn't happen to me, but there was a recall that was done with pretty generous terms. As the exploding when hitting something did happen.

(Fact checking myself, I found this article, which may be a news paper relaying what STX was saying about them, which would have had PR spin included: https://www.chicagotribune.com/1997/07/09/manufacturers-recall-lacrosse-sticks-and-chaise-lounge-chairs/ )

@LovesTha @futureisfoss @jjacobsson @evacide @roadskater I would imagine that the structural loads a fighter jet needs to survive and those a sports tool need to survive are quite different /silly