There are hundreds of truly-private alternatives, many with no company involved at all.
Such as…? I bet some ISPs or hardware maker companies are involved at some point.
Comment on ProtonMail Logged IP Address of French Activist; Should You Be Worried About Your Privacy?
Ulrich@feddit.org 18 hours ago
The police gained access to the IP address because Swiss authorities chose to cooperate with the French government
We’ve seen this several times now. Proton is subject to Swiss law, just like every company in their respective countries. You choose Proton because Switzerland has the most privacy protections of any country on the planet (for now).
If you want private communications, don’t use email. In fact, if we could all stop using email entirely, that’d be wonderful. There are hundreds of truly-secure alternatives, many with no company involved at all.
mjr@infosec.pub 17 hours ago
Ulrich@feddit.org 17 hours ago
Cwtch. XMPP. Matrix. SimpleX. Quiet. Delta Chat. Arcane Chat. Revolt. Briar. Meshtastic. etc. etc. etc.
a4ng3l@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
Aren’t most of those requiring dedicated setup? How does that work without a pre-existing communication channel such as email to prep for them? You walk to every party you need to integrate?
Ulrich@feddit.org 17 hours ago
Sorry, I don’t understand the words you’re using. Some of them are peer to peer. Some of them use servers which can be hosted by individuals. Some of them work locally over Bluetooth or WiFi.
mjr@infosec.pub 17 hours ago
Most of those still rely on some company to host a server, except Briar, and in practice most Briar users are still relying on companies to access Tor to connect.
They are more robust, not perfect.
Ulrich@feddit.org 17 hours ago
None of them require a company to host a server. That was my entire point.
holomorphic@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
This is absolute nonsense. I would prefer most of Europe over Switzerland. The swiss government was always bad with privacy. See Fichenaffäre for example. Not to mention the new büpf and similar laws. I’m swiss. I would never store sensitive data in Switzerland on a public server. Well. Except taxdata, I guess. Can’t really get around that.