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Comment by 2OEH8eoCRo0 | Hacker News Reader

It's really sad that we have all this technology but we can't trust any of it.

I think that kind of thinking is similar to the "both sides" stuff in politics. There's a meaningful difference in trustworthiness between different options.

For instance, if you need to track your period, the built in iOS apps are secure, especially if you're using advanced icloud encryption.

The trouble is that it's literally impossible to tell what applications are trustworthy and what applications are not, or whether they'll remain trustworthy over time. So you have to treat them all as untrustworthy. It's a fair rule of thumb because the majority of them can't be trusted.

I'm hearing you say that it's impossible to tell the difference between the trustworthiness of Apple and of Flo?

I'll make a period tracker for you for 5 bucks a month. You won't buy it, because it costs 5 bucks a month. So I'll have to find alternative monetisation strategies.

Nobody is going to trust your $5 a month service.

Why would me giving you 5 bucks a month assure you didn't also sell all of the data from the period tracker app? That's money you'd just be leaving on the table.

Doesn't flo charge ten dollars a month?

https://help.flo.health/hc/en-us/articles/4411278780564-What...

why does it have to be 5 bucks a month and not a one time purchase?

there is a third option: don't make one at all if you feel your only recompense involves selling this data. that's what creeps do.

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