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I saw a post about this earlier, it is a nothingburger.
The user in question paid for his account with a personal credit card, he didn’t use an anonymous payment alternative which are available.
Proton has stated that they will comply with law enforcement requests, but are working to maintain as few logs as possible.
This is an opsec failure on the user’s side.
This is not Proton handing IDs of their customers to the government on a silver platter, this is their customer not understanding the service they use.
Agreed - Proton is a tool for security but it isn’t a hired babysitter for your personal info.
Also, proton didn’t hand anything to the FBI, they got served by the swiss government and gave it them… Which might be a technicality, but they do not hand out information to foreign agencies
No thanks, I don’t wanna switch E-Mail provider again
I don’t use protonmail, bit the things you posted are not nearly enough to condemn the entire service.
I would say that their support of the trump admin is far more damming, but still not enough for people to drop them outright.
OK, proton isn’t perfect. I don’t like the All In One App, but its better than Google…
And the free service of email and minimal VPN is still a great entry for those trying to break away from Goole services
Wait. This is the shitpost community? What is this here???
Why this sub?
quick question, if I registered for free with no identifier, and I get an email that has my info, like I order something, is that account “compromised”? Can they now link all other emails to me?
The mail is encrypted, so probably not, but they have an extensive privacy policy and some blog entries, against which threats they can protect you, which they can’t
Not on Proton’s side, but whoever sent you that email obviously has both your info and your Proton address so they know it’s connected to you, even if Proton doesn’t.
Haha somehow I never realised this. Not much point to it than huh? Still, proton supports aliases, so I can give a “compromised” alias to someone like my bank, and still have untraceable aliases to the same inbox? Or does proton have to provide alias related information when asked?
