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Swiss courts are not something to be taken likely... since ProtonMail and its founders are based in Switzerland the employees themselves could have faced crimin

Swiss courts are not something to be taken likely... since ProtonMail and its founders are based in Switzerland the employees themselves could have faced criminal charges for non-compliance. A different argument could be made that they could be using more privacy-preserving tech that would make compliance not possible... but even then a court order + gag order could compel them to start logging. Why this ruling is so important is it sets legal precedent that Protonmail is in the right to not turn over user data to the government. The Swiss legal system tends to be pretty firm about things and this will likely make it next to impossible for a repeat of their past fiasco to happen.

throwawayswede 5y ago
Again, for the millionth time, the issue is not that they had to comply with the law. Stop pretending to misunderstand, all this bullshit is quite obvious. Proton mail lied, and then pretended like they didn’t. They decided it makes sense to sacrifice a customer on the account of their own fuck up and false promise. Proton mail is a shit company, and more and more I’m convinced they’ve bought shills to go out and divert attention. In the world of security, proton mail is a less than a zero. Their main clientele will be in the same scam business they are.