cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/56868158
ProtonMail Logged IP Address of French Activist; Should You Be Worried About Your Privacy?
https://beebom.com/protonmail-logged-ip-address-should-you-worry-privacy/
https://beebom.com/protonmail-logged-ip-address-should-you-worry-privacy/
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/56868158
16 Comments
troed@fedia.io · 30 pts · 297d
No.
(Proton complies with court orders and the logging was due to such)
Dekkia@this.doesnotcut.it · 47 pts · 297d
So the answer is yes, if your threat model involves the government.
Lumisal@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 297d
Unless you use Proton's fully encrypted communications, in which case still no because they literally can't get the information. The issue with the french activist years ago was also in part because they didn't use the full encryption feature.
That said, I wonder why this story from years ago is resurfacing again? Is Google or Microsoft planning on releasing another unpopular feature?
tatann@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 297d
OP is posting a lot about China, I guess bad press about european products is another way to go
Dekkia@this.doesnotcut.it · 2 pts · 296d
What are you talking about?
Proton logged the activists IPs. This has nothing to do with any encryption.
slag@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 297d
Their Black Friday discounts launched this week.
rirus@feddit.org · 1 pts · 296d
They didnt used VPN.
jenesaisquoi@feddit.org · 5 pts · 297d
The Swiss judiciary, to be precise.
randomname@scribe.disroot.org · 7 pts · 297d
Yeah, the linked report is pretty clear about that and some other important points regarding this incident. The title is grossly misleading imo.
Nanook@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 297d
That’s a very confident no, but actually yes.
troed@fedia.io · 2 pts · 297d
.. but actually no. Quoted from the article:
Nanook@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 297d
Yeah imo that’s just “think of the children”
troed@fedia.io · 5 pts · 297d
Where do you expect privacy when you've attracted the attention of the legal system?
ninth_plane@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 297d
Proton has an Onion site for connecting to their service over Tor - it's one of the neat things that you can use Tor for without any nefarious intent.
oyzmo@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 296d
Tutamail 🤩
SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org · -1 pts · 297d
Proton will go to shit like any other corpo that gets too big. It's inevitable.