• John Richard@lemmy.world
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      6 months ago

      They answer to government orders quite frequently, so stop pretending that they are above the law first of all… all it takes is one change to their served JS mail client and voila now they have your private key too which is already saved server-side. God, some people want to be had.

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          6 months ago

          Go ahead but I’m sure I can explain in much more technical depth than you… there is a reason I’m guessing you can’t even figure out how to use GnuPG so you just rely on some hosted solution to claim they are keeping you safe.

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        Find me a company that’s going to deny a court order for $5 a month.

        Proton promises privacy and security. Not collusion in whatever illegal shit you’re doing.

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          TIL that being privacy conscious and security aware means your involved in collusion and illegal shit. Maybe you should tell that to Proton VPN users who primarily use their service to seed copyrighted torrents in countries where it is illegal. Oh, but you don’t care about them… just some rando who hurt your fee fees for being honest.

          BTW I never said they should deny court orders. I was responding to someone who claimed that they answer no one except their customers. I claimed that even if they answer a court order, then hijacking your account and private key shouldn’t be as simple as serving modified JS to their users.

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      6 months ago

      You are right that Proton is currently self-funded by its paying customers, but to be accurate, they have actually taken VC money before.