Had the activist been using proton vpn to create and access their email, Proton would not have had the info they were forced to give up.
What? If protonmail collects any info, why do you assume protonmail doesn’t?
Comment on Standard notes: what about don’t put all your eggs in one basket rule?
Imprint9816@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 months agoIt doesn’t matter what is being discussed, if its about proton the email incident gets brought up. Here is the deal. No major company is going to break the law for its users. Had the activist been using proton vpn to create and access their email Proton would not have had the info they were forced to give up. The takeaway from the story is bad opsec is usually what gets people caught.
Whether you use Proton or someone else you will need to trust that service. If you don’t trust them, don’t use them. Its that simple, no need for conjured up FUD excuses.
gamedeviancy@discuss.tchncs.de 7 months ago
Imprint9816@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 months ago
Proton can see my traffic. I already know that. Any vpn provider you use could. Its not that i trust proton implicitly its that i trust them more then my ISP that would be able to see it if i did not use a vpn. Couple that with their record of audits and im not sure what else you could expect from them.
gamedeviancy@discuss.tchncs.de 7 months ago
You wrote that if the activists used proton VPN to register their mail account, proton would not have the information he needed to pass on. It’s not true cause they would probably have the same metadata about them.
LWD@lemm.ee 7 months ago
I bring up “the email incident” because it’s a reminder that Proton may record stuff that’s not encrypted, which includes the vast majority of emails.
And it’s not to say that you wouldn’t trust it with one individual service, but whether it’s wise to trust it with so many services at once, from a security, privacy, and even monetary perspective.
Not every concern is FUD, and I think you’ll start seeing diminishing returns every time you repeat it.
Imprint9816@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 months ago
Not every concern is but ones where concern is based solely on fear and hypotheticals are. This all eggs in one basket line of reasoning is FUD and has no real bearing in reality.