Then you have to worry about security from side channel attacks. Even things like the iOS or Android task-switcher UI caching screenshots of your app can be vectors.
Oh yeah, making an app that is easy to use and still secure is definitely not easy. But at least you would know how you implemented the encryption on it.
I didn't mean "your own" app would be easier to use, I meant the crypto would be easier to use via an app instead of using it through the command line.
I don't know why he asked, but I was confused about your statement. I wasn't sure of your intent. Were you asking if the user "did not buy it" metaphorically? Or were you suggesting that because the update is free (therefore impossible to buy), users should restrain (or properly frame) their criticism?
Automate something (my favorite advice), or analyze something. Find a task that has a lot of manual steps (copy a file here, copy a string from there, etc) and automate whatever you can.
Pick something apart and analyze it programatically. Email is great as there are protocols and libraries to do this with. Find a/the IMAP library for your language of choice, copy a bunch of messages to some place where you won't harm the originals, and start picking apart the folders and messages. See what you can know about what's in a folder and list it. See what you can know about a message, and list that all out.
You could do the same with a bare html document, there are really good libraries to pick apart an html doc. Beyond that, learn the DOM and pick it apart from that angle.
The idea is not that important at first. By doing even simpliest things, you will expand your knowledge on programming, which in turn will guide you about what you can do with it.
The funny thing is that I do have some experience with auto repair, HVAC, and carpentry. My Dad is a general contractor and every summer I would usually go help him with jobs. I've helped build a house, work on a custom deck for a pool, and quite a few other things. We have worked on my truck and car together. Being in Houston isn't the best for doing that stuff. Being in an attic where it's 90+ out isn't very fun. Thanks for the advice though!
If I didn't have to worry about malicious ads, pop up advertisements, video ads that automatically play, and obnoxious ads then I probably wouldn't use AdBlock. But since advertisements are nothing but obnoxious then it makes it hard for me to change my mind...
Yeah, some advertisers actually hurt their own industry with really pushy ads. How mild would the ads need to be for you to be happy to turn off your adblocker? Would you tolerate any ads, even from your favourite site?
