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That article is full of terrible advice. Example: > Don't use Gmail -- use ProtonMail "ProtonMail logged IP address of French activist after order by Swiss au
by sedatk 5y ago
That article is full of terrible advice. Example:
> Don't use Gmail -- use ProtonMail
"ProtonMail logged IP address of French activist after order by Swiss authorities"
https://techcrunch.com/2021/09/06/protonmail-logged-ip-address-of-french-activist-after-order-by-swiss-authorities/ https://techcrunch.com/2021/09/06/protonmail-logged-ip-addre...
- Havoc 5y agoThey don't log by default, but were legally compelled to do so in this instance. Which is about as good as it gets. Unless you know of a reputable email provider that ignores court orders? (bit of an oxymoron)
- sedatk 5y agoI agree that ProtonMail and GMail are not the same in terms of privacy protections. But, the article implies that the bulk of advice provided in the article is somehow a guarantee to anonymity. A reader may easily assume that ProtonMail doesn't log any IP addresses at all based on that misconception. ProtonMail even used to claim exactly that in their sales page until that incident I linked to. In fact, the article is the anti-thesis of itself. Blanket anonymity advice is the worst anonymity advice.
- samfather 5y agoIt also recommends using DuckDuckGo ... the "private" search engine hosted on US Microsoft servers.