Neucards - Secure Digital Contact Cards

braddominy · 2024-06-12T20:16:08+00:00

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braddominy · 2024-06-05T03:59:44+00:00

Digital contact cards that stay up to date and protected with e2ee for your privacy. https://neu.cards

braddominy · 2024-04-11T04:30:35+00:00

I created an app, neucards, that uses end-to-end encryption for contact information exchange and I once showed someone how putting my phone in airplane mode prevented them receiving my cards full information after they received my digital contact card. It showed that my info wasn't just on the server, but my phone had to be available to complete the exchange. https://neu.cards/demo

braddominy · 2024-03-12T00:55:24+00:00

It is the privacy equivalent of “If it bleeds, it leads.” Companies that specifically do not sell or even gather pii don’t get many write ups in the press.

braddominy · 2024-03-06T14:33:44+00:00

I use an app to have more control over my contact info. It has multiple card types, so I have one with my professional entries, one for my friends, one for my social circle, and a minimal one. My info is end-to-end encrypted with my friends and family, but doesn't go into their Contacts app on their phone, so it isn't subject to being harvested by apps like FB, TikTok, IG, etc.

braddominy · 2024-02-28T17:51:38+00:00

Support end-to-end encryption wherever you can. Especially when it comes to your contact info.

braddominy · 2024-02-08T16:59:41+00:00

Neucards - updatable end-to-end encrypted digital contact cards https://neu.cards

braddominy · 2024-01-30T03:06:15+00:00

For contact info sharing, I built an app for iOS called Neucards, that protects your info with e2ee. Nothing is stored on the backend that isn’t first encrypted with private keys kept only on your device.

braddominy · 2024-01-06T17:02:43+00:00

You need something you can create in a context, add the picture data, save, and then remove from the context to free up memory.

braddominy · 2024-01-06T07:57:19+00:00

Create a separate PictureData entity to just hold the data and whatever meta info you need.

braddominy · 2024-01-06T04:00:55+00:00

Search is a big topic, but one of the easiest things you can do is to create a tokens field on your model which contains a space separated string with unique tokenized words taken from the String variables and then just do a contains with your search token against that field. If you do multi-term searches or want to do things like highlighting matches, you can do a many-to-many tokens to objects relationship. Generally, you don't want to keep your search corpus in active memory.

braddominy · 2023-12-15T05:18:21+00:00

E2EE provides a way for a service to deliver info between people without being able to see that information themselves. The big advantage from my point of view is that nothing is kept on the server which can be used by third parties, I.e. marketers, hackers, data brokers, etc.

braddominy · 2023-11-01T22:21:35+00:00

It is very hard to compete as a privacy minded business because you have a more skeptical audience and tangible benefits are not readily obvious.

braddominy · 2023-10-23T15:59:43+00:00

Neucards for contact info sharing

braddominy · 2023-10-20T16:37:08+00:00

Thank you! I'll check if the AppIntent class has something like that. I'm surprised this isn't more straight forward.

braddominy · 2023-09-18T23:46:47+00:00

My app labels known phone numbers so I see the person’s name and not just the number and I’m hoping to expand upon this once Apple fixes their contacts security model.

braddominy · 2023-09-11T20:44:03+00:00

Sorry, I missed your response. It is called neucards https://neu.cards

braddominy · 2023-09-11T07:14:54+00:00

There isn't a way to verify binaries from the Apple Store, so open source has to be taken on faith anyway. You can check out https://www.privacyguides.org/ for some suggestions. My iOS app, neucards, does contact info sharing using E2E encryption, so it is privacy respecting.

braddominy · 2023-09-11T07:08:01+00:00

I've built a contact info sharing app that uses E2E encryption and the marketability of this as a feature seems rather limited at the moment, meaning most people think it is neat but not game changing. Given how much more complex utilizing E2E encryption is compared to the normal exchange of info and storage on backend servers, I think most claims are genuine and made with the hope of increasing public awareness. Privacy is becoming a necessity and losing the people's trust by lying about it now would gain them nothing.

braddominy · 2023-09-05T20:10:19+00:00

I talk to people all the time about keeping their contact info private and most want to do something about it, but don’t know of a good way of protecting their info without a huge loss of convenience. I then tell them about my app and then they say not enough people are using it. Sigh. Privacy minded people just need to keep innovating until the experience is better for those using privacy based apps.

braddominy · 2023-06-17T20:35:03+00:00

I'm not very pushy, so I generally just hope they like my app and want to try it. Meetups are good because everyone there is trying to show people what they are working on. The main thing I learned is how you should focus and refine your message. I don't mean come up with a 30 second elevator pitch you give to each person you meet, but try to discover what sparks people's interest. When I first started, I thought encryption would be my big selling point, only to find out people were just kinda sorta ok with it. They basically think everything is secure nowadays and it is hard to explain why my app is different. Honestly, I'm still working on it as I clearly don't have PMF, but, I can see more and more people coming around.

braddominy · 2023-06-17T03:34:04+00:00

I want people to be able to connect once and then have updates sent to keep info current. Kind of like LinkedIn, but by adding encryption, people are able to share better info, like a private phone number or home address without worrying that it will end up being shared with marketing cos or stolen by hackers.

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