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While the incident is really a bit worrying, I'm personally not paying PM to protect me from state-agents - I'm paying them to protect me from Joe working in ma

While the incident is really a bit worrying, I'm personally not paying PM to protect me from state-agents - I'm paying them to protect me from Joe working in marketing. If a state agent wants my data and brings the necessary paperwork to get it - I'm not expecting anyone to put up a hopeless fight for me, or at least not for the 100 bucks or so that I'm paying yearly for PM. I just expect them to not sell out my data altogether, which PM doesn't seem to be doing, and this is all (or at least, most) that I care about.

southerntofu 5y ago
Even when that's a foreign state agent making a clear case of political repression against activists? Would you expect protonmail to collaborate with Russian/Chinese intelligence and rat out on you because you criticized Putin and maybe put up anti-FSB posters on the streets?
- GreenWatermelon 5y ago
  They didn't cooperate with a foreign government, the complied with a swiss court order. The problem here is with swiss law, not ProtonMail.
  - southerntofu 5y ago
    That a corrupt judge/government incited you to collaborate with another corrupt government's political police doesn't change the fact that this collaboration took place. Without abiding by Godwin's law, "i was merely operating under local regulations" is a well-known defense of nazi collaborators during WWII and was considered an invalid argument then and now. If you ever receive a court order ordering you to kill someone, will you do it without even giving it second thoughts just because it's a local law?! See also: milgram experiment, stanford experiment, and in general social studies on the authoratitive/fascist mindset.