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"Felony is the first PGP app that's easy for anyone to use"

How about calling it "Freedom"

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Chucking my naming idea, call it rights.

Everybody wants rights and nobody sane is against having rights when rights means their right the free speech, their right to a fair trial etc.

good idea!

Wow, I like this a lot!

I would consider naming it something other than a common English phrase, honestly. I know it's the big trend these days, but it's making things incredibly hard to search for. Try searching for the messaging service "matrix" and the matrix client "vector". Insane amount of namespace collision there.

Best to go with something like Freechain or something so at least people can search for it.

"Freechain" is great. It passes the cognate test (sounds like "keychain," which it is), and the "free" part gives it the multiple meanings of both FOSS and freedom from surveillance. Euphony is pretty high, and it looks fairly low-noise on Google, too.

And chain even retains some connotations to "felon" ... ;-)

Seriously, though, "freechain" strikes a nice balance between being a new term, and hinting at what the use-case is.

I agree that Freedom is a nice choice, but "Freedom" is already in use by a somewhat well-known website/social media blocker (as in "freedom from all those distractions"):

https://freedom.to/

Still, other suggestions are coming up in this thread that may be of use. I really like the idea of a name that, for a non-technical user, cab be a lead in to answering "why do I want this app? what does it do for me?"

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