So long as you have robust data sanitization on the backend to prevent XSS and HTML injection attacks...

If you can get away with just using Markdown, you should definitely use that instead of full HTML.

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This has nothing to do with email as a protocol. The court order discussed in the article asked for the recovery email address of an account. No actual email data was transferred.

For most transmissions of digital information (even those here on earth) there's a concept of a "checksum". Basically at the end of every message, there's a special number, and you can do some math on the rest of the message to get that same number. If anything happened to change or damage the message in transit, the math doesn't work out and so the checksum fails.

I would assume Voyager works in a similar way so every time it receives a message it will compute the checksum and see whether it matches

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What a brain-dead take. If your threshold for true safety is "literally no one can force you to decrypt it or affect the system in any way" then of course it's insecure, and so is everything else unless everyone writes their own crypto implementation yourself locally.

"oh I compile my binaries from source so I'm safe"

Someone could compromise the source repo and have it serve a compromised version to your machine. I guarantee you aren't reading the entirety of the open SSL source code before you compile it.

Anyone that takes this article seriously should read On Trusting Trust. It's a very short essay that states the point much more eloquently than the post author that you eventually have to trust someone. Whether that's Apple or Signal or some random maintainer of your crypto implementation library, you have to trust someone that it hasn't been backdoored.

Jetbrains Phpstorm is probably best in class, but you'll have to pay for it.

It's perfectly normal for your computer to have daemons.

You should definitely set up a DMARC record to prevent other people from using your email domain to send spam. If you don't have DMARC configured, other email servers will give any senders the benefit of the doubt and accept mail that claims to be from your domain.

You can just set the DMARC record to reject 100% of unverified mail and call it a day. Since you aren't sending anything it won't affect you.

The term is metonym. It is when you use a characteristic or associated attribute of a thing as the name of that thing. A classic example would be "the crown" when talking about the monarch or "The Whitehouse" when talking about the president.

These ads only appear in the "promotions" section of Gmail, the section that is by definition for advertising emails. It's not great, but this is the least intrusive place to put ads.

"I learned participant observation from watching you" is such a phenomenal line