Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.
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They gave payment data to the authorities, because, guess what, they HAVE to provide whatever is subpoenaed. Did they provide emails, IP addresses? Doesn't say any of that. There's the option of paying with crypto, but the imbeciles that know they are going to be at risk of being found, paid with a credit or debit card.
404 media is more of the same sensationalism laden bullshit out there. Make a fucking Strom out of a drop of water.
ITT people who believe you have to comply with government orders and call themselves anarchists
just really sad to call yourself a privacy company and then feed your customer to the gestapo
people can end up as embarrassing footnotes in history a number of different ways, but being a dishonest coward company in the privacy sphere is basically speedrunning it
I never trusted ProtonMail. Right when you sign up, you're constantly bombarded with advertisements to upgrade to pro. They're plastered everywhere with obnoxious banners.
I get that they're a business and they need money to operate, but the ads are so obnoxiously "in your face" that in my mind their priority isn't your privacy, it's your money.
Tutamail is the better service.
How's Tutamail any better than Proton Mail? Help me understand. And if Tutamail's priority is not your money, then what is it? There's no such thing as a free thing after all (?).
Plus, the owner of Proton said that Trump also did good things.
That was the straw that broke the camel's back.
Proton was legally ordered by the Swiss justice department to hand over the (severely limited) information about a law breaking organization. They had paid for Proton using a credit card instead of the anonymous payment methods Proton offers, and that is what Proton was forced to hand over. It was the organization's bad OpSec, not Proton willingly deanonymizing users.
Hopefully people like you will be able to nip this in the bud before yet another joke of a controversy starts...
You must be new here...
On the one hand, I really like how often Proton's shortcomings are highlighted. This SHOULD be a wake up call that you should never rely on a company to protect you and should instead focus on what you can do to ptorect yourself. And Proton... actually are pretty good in that regard. Connect from a burner/live image computer over public wifi using tor (or something similar) and their free accounts are STILL the gold standard for journalism and whistleblowers.
But the problem is that people are stupid and lazy (and many outlets actively benefit from "Eww, proton is bad. If only they had paid for NordVPN to really protect them from the FBI! ~Note, NordVPN provides no guarantees of protection~ ". So we just get stupidity.
Yeah, I am no fan of proton and they have lied before (no log VPN logs magically finding logs for authorities and then later removing the no-log claim).
But this is literally just proton being legally compelled to hand over data the user willingly gave (not being harvested or de-encrypted). A nothing story.
Really, this headline should be "Organization so poorly organized that they messed up having relatively secure email."
Not at all. Proton doesn't require any personal info at all. But if you pay with a credit card... That has your personal info tied to it. It's their fuck up paying with a credit card. Proton accepts other payment methods that aren't tied to your identity.
Proton is required by law to provide information they have when the courts say so.
Some people in the comment section are really dumb switching to other alternatives thinking that Proton isn't trustworthy because they gave the information despite the organisation not using anonymous currency. What's ironic is that some of these people are switching to those alternatives where you can't even use anonymous currency.
Also, kind of a clickbait title.
This instance really wants to dislike Proton.
Proton did some PR for Trump a while ago that didn't get them on everyones good side.
Not this again...
For one, it was Andy Yen, posting on his personal rather than from Proton's account.
Second, if you follow the money, Andy Yen and Proton donates a lot of money to liberal organizations. They also campaign for Democrats actually.
The downfall of this is all because he thought Gail Slater would be a good pick and the entirety of the privacy community thought he undid all of his privacy advocacy and foundation overnight.
Use monero.
Long Live Tutamail and using a duckduckgo.com address as a backup!
Oh boy, their man fawning over Trump is aging like fine milk.
Proton the company that prides itself protecting privacy when it is literally the law of the country they are in. It is like a cabby advertising that they have license and insurance.
Protón don’t promise anonymity If you use your credit card to pay protón services. Maybe he has to learn more about OPSEC. 🤷♂️
Please, using crypto alone isn't going to do shit. The barrier to entry for truly anonymous usage is not something most people will ever accomplish.
Privacy is effectively dead but yet we have a company trying to advertise about it. Proton has always been marketing garbage meant to attract people's money.
Garbage company with no ethics other than taking care of their pocket book.
article in case you can't read it: ~~lemmy.ml/post/44086795~~ edit: better link in a reply.
proton coulda put up a fight, a loud one, for optics sake if nothing else. rolling over on any (and by implication, all) request should be the last straw in their long line of snafus; by way of "death by a thousand cuts", I would never entrust them with anything of importance.
signal demonstrated that you could decouple payment info from user data and a shop that touts the privacy part of their offerings coulda at least mimic such a thing.
edit 2: fuck any and all pay-with-crypto shills and the horse they rode in on.
You cannot put up a fight when ordered to do something by a judge who has jurisdiction over you. You either comply or you’re committing a crime.
They have a .onion site. Use it always.
And don’t pay with a credit card if you’re committing crimes lmao