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Re:Ask HN: Projects that don't make you money but you're doi... by shpx on Thursday August 10, 2017 @05:58PM (#14984722)
In pastery's FAQ it says

> Everything goes over an encrypted TLS connection, so nobody other than the intended recipient can see what you're pasting.

It should say "nobody other than the intended recipient and the developers of this website".

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Re:Ask HN: Projects that don't make you money but you're doi... by StavrosK on Thursday August 10, 2017 @08:54PM (#14985791)
I have changed the wording to be more accurate, thanks!
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Re:Ask HN: Projects that don't make you money but you're doi... by bgaluszka on Friday August 11, 2017 @08:42AM (#14989036)
Not sure if that would be useful but you could use similar approach to recently posted https://send.firefox.com/ that encrypts content before sending it to server using key that is in # param and is never send to server by browser.
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Re:Ask HN: Projects that don't make you money but you're doi... by StavrosK on Friday August 11, 2017 @09:49AM (#14989599)
Unfortunately, that would make it hard to provide various features server-side, such as code highlighting, and would require JS on the client (and also break raw file downloads, etc). It would also make the editor plugins much more complicated (right now they just POST to an endpoint).

We think that not listing pastes, having them expire soon by default, etc is a good compromise, as we don't claim perfect privacy, just that pastes are always sort of "unlisted".

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