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Proton Mail complied with a legal demand they had no choice but to comply with, providing the basic shred of information the user willingly and knowingly provid
by amatecha 7mo ago
Proton Mail complied with a legal demand they had no choice but to comply with, providing the basic shred of information the user willingly and knowingly provided.
You want to be anonymous? Don't use your credit card! Don't connect from your home internet connection. (I don't know whether this person did because I can't read the story due to login-requirement). Either way, total non-story. Anyone whose potential adversary is a powerful government should already know this stuff.
Either way, Proton didn't help the FBI. The article title is deceptive and implies a degree of insidiousness or dishonesty that has not been demonstrated by Proton in this case.
- GS523523 7mo ago> Either way, Proton didn't help the FBI. > Proton Mail complied with a legal demand they had no choice but to comply with
- brookst 7mo agoYou seem to think those two quotes make a point, but for the life of me I’m not seeing it? Are you trying to say that any compliance is by definition help? Like if the FBI subpoenas my public key and I comply, that’s helping them?
- Joker_vD 7mo ago> Like if the FBI subpoenas my public key and I comply, that’s helping them? If you're helping the FBI to do their job (conducting federal investigations), then yes, you are helping the FBI. Unless your definition of "to help" includes the absence of any possibly coercive circumstance.
- brookst 7mo agoAn, so just semantics about “to help” and whether it involves volition.
- panja 7mo agoIf I'm not mistaken, proton didn't give anything to the FBI, they provided what was required by law to the Swiss government who then gave it to the FBI. It's a small distinction but it matters.
- designerarvid 7mo agoNot small, essential
- Ylpertnodi 7mo agoJust like various .govs don't spy on ther own people, they get their friends to do it for them.