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"stealing" is the only path the NSA can take in the case of ProtonMail, due to their servers being hosted in Switzerland and not within the borders of a nation
by uncletaco 10y ago
"stealing" is the only path the NSA can take in the case of ProtonMail, due to their servers being hosted in Switzerland and not within the borders of a nation that has a strong relationship with the US intelligence community.
- bigiain 10y agoI'd bet good money that the NSA can outsource this to their friends/counterparts/lackeys in any of five eyes, nine eyes, and fourteen eyes countries - and through less official channels involving local or flown-in thugs, pretty much everywhere else. They probably can't easily get Huawei's or Baidu's private keys, but I bet there's tens or hundreds of thousands of Protonmail sized companies in China/Russia/everywhere else that they _can_ strongarm the owners or sysadmin staff into handing keys over. Or maybe I'm just in a way too "the whole world is fucked" mood today...