• Elrecoal19@lemmy.world
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    23 hours ago

    Except politics, actually, can change the service. For example, surrendering data in secret. Or installing backdoors.

    Not that I think Proton is gonna do that (or at least hope so), but thinking “why would I care about politics, they don’t affect the app on a technical level” is incredibly naive and potentially incorrect.

    With an over-the-top example, it’s kinda like saying “why should I care about the politics of my landlord after they support the “Increase Tenant’s Rent” party, it doesn’t change the service”

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      11 hours ago

      If your threat model depends of political idiologies then you should reconsider your threat model.

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        3 hours ago

        If a person signals loyalty to a criminal government which is violating the rights of its people daily, why would I trust them not to cooperate with that government when they ask for a backdoor to be installed? Conservatives are simply not trustworthy. They’re lying, backstabbing, and manipulative. They have no principles at all and will say or do anything to acquire more power and money