RE: Hive.pm : Private Messaging on HIVE! Review
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Are they properly encrypted this time? I seem to vaguely recollect from steem how someone was testing using the memo key for encrypted "private message" wallet transfers and apparently some front ends were sending them plaintext x_x
The encryption will be nice for anyone getting censored. For "normal" people (who should also still probably use encryption anyway) it's probably more a thing that's expected as every other socnet has private messaging.
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It works on the peakd frontend if I based it on my wallet transfers. Haven't checked other frontends though. They're not going to find anything from the transfers. I just think encrypting it makes the transfer even more suspicious than a blank transfer.
And meanwhile I like encryption and privacy and don't see anything whatsoever wrong with encrypted and blank transfers XD
Exceptions made for governments and businesses (and charities while we still need them around I guess). They can be entirely transparent.
If someone sends me money with a memo not encrypted as "Drug Money" corresponding to a high amount, the first thing that comes to mind is it being a joke, because it has to be a joke. But then due to the nature of it being on the blockchain and the sender being put into investigation and receiver maybe, it doesn't look laughable months down the road. A blank transfer still raises questions especially in huge sum but doesn't have the same energy for suspicion as a huge sum transfer + encryption.
The value of the app is for users living with restricted means of communication where true censorship is a problem. If peakd domain can't be accessed, there will be more alternative sites to resort to. Censorship isn't an issue for most people until they are censored themselves and most just take their freedom of expression for granted. :/