Comment on ProtonMail Logged IP Address of French Activist; Should You Be Worried About Your Privacy?
Nyxias@fedia.io 1 day ago
Okay so I do remember this issue being brought up a long time ago so it's not exactly news and the author has a poor time lapse of events.
ProtonMail is not like a safe haven for any criminal operation, that would make Proton incredibly liable. Just like Telegram became with what's been happening with trafficking and children-related incidents.
Secondly, an IP address is like stupidly easy to get anyways on someone unless VPN.
There is just so many things wrong that people are not taking into account but I guess let others go on self-virtuous parades to demonize Proton. If you understand laws, this is not a problem. If you understand tech, you'd realize the same. If you understand both, then hooray! You get it.
mjr@infosec.pub 1 day ago
There seems to be no suggestion yet that any crime was committed on/using ProtonMail itself. Just that it was a tool to track someone accused of offline crimes. So this comment feels like misdirection because there are probably options between being liable and effectively telling the cops where users are.