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This is strike two. ProtonMail went under fire several months back about opting to use Google's reCaptcha for login in a time crunch, rather than setting up hC
by junon 5y ago
This is strike two.
ProtonMail went under fire several months back about opting to use Google's reCaptcha for login in a time crunch, rather than setting up hCaptcha even if it took a little extra time.
The tradeoff was cost vs. user privacy and they chose cost, which is NOT why a lot of us pay PM to begin with.
This is unacceptable, but unfortunately there are no alternatives that hit all the check marks PM has in terms of features.
The response of "use Tor to connect" doesn't really help. If you so much as accidentally connect once with a normal IP, that's enough to nab you.
- Jommi 5y agoRead the actual case details here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28431834 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28431834
- junon 5y agoThanks. This is quite a different narrative than the Twitter thread and makes a bit more sense. People likening this to exposing the hiding places of Jews to the Nazis is probably the saddest and most infuriating comparison I've seen in recent times. Let's be rational here, folks.
- tempodox 5y agoYou cannot expect anyone to openly not comply with the law on your behalf. It looks like ProtonMail had to log and cough up that IP in the context of a criminal investigation. The politics of how it became a criminal investigation in the first place have nothing to do with PM. The submission title doesn't reflect the details.