• You had to dig deep to get a news from 2021. and still, private doesn‘t mean anonymous, idk why everyone relates the both.
    And still, no news here, Proton explained this case several times and they‘ve been pretty transparent.

  • Instead of the original Forbes article, this post links to a youtube video, where an “AI-generated newscaster” talks some general crap without providing any details. I wish I could downvote this spam more than once.

  • Forbes: https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2023/08/08/protonmail-fbi-search-led-to-a-suspect-threatening-a-2020-election-official/?sh=48791539235c

    • Claire Woodall-Vogg, the executive director of the Milwaukee Election Commission, was harassed and threatened after an innocuous email exchange with an election consultant was published by conservative news outlets.
    • One of the harassers used ProtonMail, an encrypted email service, to send Woodall-Vogg a threatening email.
    • The FBI acquired data from Proton Technologies, the owner of ProtonMail, to help them identify the anonymous emailer.
    • The FBI was able to find the suspect’s identity and conduct a sweep across their internet accounts, but they were not charged with any crimes.
    • Woodall-Vogg said that the harassment has not continued recently.
    • ProtonMail said that they employ several teams to handle instances of abuse on their platform and that they only provide metadata to law enforcement agencies.
    • ProtonMail has received 6,995 orders for data in 2022, of which it contested 1,038.

    They said in the past that to retain anonymity, users should use Tor to access the service.

  • Mail encyption on proton is useless once you send a mail to google or any other provider. That is not bashing proton, rather to point out that glowies do not need to deal with proton too much to get what they want.

    • You can absolutely send encrypted messages to off network users. They need a password to read it.

      You can also just encrypt your messages yourself with the recipient’s public key. This works everywhere. Even google to google mails.

    • How so? The three biggest things I attribute to Google are search, ads, and their mail/calendar/drive/docs suite. The only thing I see Proton doing is the last, which serves as an alternative to more than just Google.

      (I ask this as someone that does not use Proton as primary for anything)