Proton’s Lumo AI chatbot: not end-to-end encrypted, not open source (pivot-to-ai.com)

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https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20250802-protons-lumo-ai-chatbot-not-end-to-end-not-open-source - podcast
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDPZbUPUFyk&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video

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[-] Soyweiser@awful.systems 5 points 22 hours ago

Unrelated to protonmail, but related to getting the wrong guy for the job. The telegram CEO said that the cryptography of telegram was coded by his brother. (The CEO is also famously not a persona non grata in Russia which likely means the FSB has access to telegram (And if they have access, more people can have it))

[-] dgerard@awful.systems 7 points 20 hours ago

Nikolai Durov has two Ph.Ds in maths, and is convinced he is the smartest man in the world, and Telegram's cryptography follows directly

[-] Seminar2250@awful.systems 6 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

i made the stupid mistake of doing math, then cs

surrounded by

my narrow technical specialty + lack of experience or knowledge of other fields = i'm the smartest, here is a trivial solution to your problem

constantly

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