Imagine what the internet is like for someone that feels that way about cats and dogs

Always wonder if this is a state actor

This is rather clever

Imagine driving to work thinking “ today’s the day we finally help those ads get through “

I bet it will play on the deck . I’ll look it up

This is an article to make you buy an e-bike now .

You know that, right ?

The best £14.99 they ever spent

Write.as

Or any of these https://alternativeto.net/software/medium/?license=opensource

Quite the opposite.

You’ve been triggered by very mild criticism of Proton and the small but nonetheless important risks associated with using that service.

You have accused the user in question of doing crimes - it’s there in your comment for everyone to see. You are unable to accept that a firm that according to their own data, services 6000 requests for information under the Law, is a useful source of information for Law Enforcement.

There’s no where for this conversation to go from here.

I’ve never sought to absolve the user of responsibility, but nor am I ready to label him a criminal, which you seem to be able to do.

At the same time, my words were quite specifically a mild criticism of Proton who are, for reasons I have explain, not entirely the privacy haven it is perceived to be, because of design decisions, where it choose to host its servers and the fact that it has perhaps unknowingly created a highly functional database for law enforcement to query in demand.

Don’t tell me, tell the guy they gave up . ?

They market to activists and people concerned with the business of protest, not Swiss law experts - and are very much are not up front about what could happen if they are contact by LE. Of course They don’t hide it, but you won’t find it on the front page, where they trumpet about Swiss privacy… You and I know the detail, many users may not.

At the end of the day, they attract a lot of activists and protesters to their service, with the offer of “safe and secure email. “ .

They hold a database of all them, in a jurisdiction that requires them to comply with legal requests for information.

They service some 6000 such requests from their database of every year, or around 30 per day.

You can decide for yourself who this efficient and eminently accessible single source of protesters information helps the most.

Proton doesn’t get a free ride here.

They are bound Swiss law and should not be retaining any identifying information.

If they are going to give up everything they have on you when the feds come knocking, they shouldn’t keep anything or they shouldn’t market themselves as private and secure .