Comment on Proton Mail Suspended Journalist Accounts at Request of Cybersecurity Agency

• limer@lemmy.ml ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  The important thing to me is not maliciousness, but reliability under political , social and legal pressure.

  All of this is hard to understand, much of what is happening is opaque.

  Also this does not apply to all people. Depending on hundreds of variables, one person’s issue is not relevant to another.

  I am in a country that can exert legal pressure on them; and so I cannot use their services

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  • artyom@piefed.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    There's no legal pressure here. Just a request. A request that it makes sense for them to respond to, for the sake of their own users.

    What service do you think isn't subject to legal pressure?

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    • limer@lemmy.ml ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Under USA law proton cannot reveal some requests, or even talk about deeper collaboration.

      This is why some services use canaries. When something is removed from a page it can be assumed they ante under a gag order. This has happened many times ,see en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warrant_canary

      By and large political opposition in an authoritarian country should not use tools under that jurisdiction.

      I would definitely base my email outside of that influence.

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      • artyom@piefed.social ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        What does US law have to do with anything? Proton is based out of Switzerland.

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