yes living in this dystopia one must say that most people do not have a specific threat model. but i get your point.
I meant that encrypted email is not very useful if none of your mailing partners are using a compatible service. (that is the case with me)
Honestly I’m not entire sure, i’m not a lawyer.
Though Proton is a subscription service. Then again, probably with some clever tricks it’s possible to devise a renewing subscription that is not storing the payment credentials in such a way that the company could not extract it. The more I think about this, the more i’d like to know what Swiss law really allows for. (chatGPT thinks you’re right & my argument is on very weak grounds)
Alright, so Tuta has gift cards, that’s wicked cool. TIL
But at the end of the day secure mail is still not a real thing for most people.
Why isn’t that incident enough for everyone to drop them?
There is no public email service provider -as far as I know- that would refuse a court order to share such information. In the case of Proton any foreign authority wanting such needs to convince Swiss authorities that their request is legitimate.
Ultimately if you register an account with false credentials & never pay for pro, then the only thing proton can give to Swiss authorities is maybe your IP address, which will be your VPN if you have one. If you pay then payment credentials could be used to identify you.
All the emails stored on proton’s servers are non-recoverable, same as with Tuta.
It sucks that paying for pro reduces your privacy, but this applies to other email providers as well. This is actually what happened in the Atlanta case & there is no real defense against it. Using your personal credit card creates a trail.
Can you imagine a world where you can order physical cards for email credit? (and they would have randomized codes to avoid this exact problem)
Did he make a post defending the asterisk “privacy first” should have in their marketing?
Private email is a bit of an oxymoron, the best anyone can do is to store your own email history in an unrecoverable way, which proton is doing, but their marketing team is not really transparent about what “private email” really is & what that means to users.
Debian solved all past pain points, now they are legit better than Ubuntu LTS in most ways that matter & are equal in user friendliness.
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