ProtonMail DDoS Attacks Are a Case Study of What Happens When You Mock Attackers
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ProtonMail DDoS Attacks Are a Case Study of What Happens When You Mock Attackers
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Re: ProtonMail DDoS Attacks Are a Case Study of What Happens When You Mock Attackers
#2After watching Lavabit and other encrypted services of America get shutdown. I wouldn't be surprised if the group is being funded by the NSA or other government programs that hate these services for the near absolute privacy. Sure this is just a theory, but there is reason with it.
Protonmail has been under attack since its conception. Corrupt government hate the very idea of it.
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#3If there’s something I’ve learnt of irc is that you don’t taunt those who can bring your connection down. Maybe this will teach these kids from ProtonMail a lesson.
Re: ProtonMail DDoS Attacks Are a Case Study of What Happens When You Mock Attackers
#4If there’s something I’ve learnt of irc is that you don’t taunt those who can bring your connection down. Maybe this will teach these kids from ProtonMail a lesson.
Lol, he called them clowns once. Must’ve really hurt their feelings...
Re: ProtonMail DDoS Attacks Are a Case Study of What Happens When You Mock Attackers
#5If there’s something I’ve learnt of irc is that you don’t taunt those who can bring your connection down. Maybe this will teach these kids from ProtonMail a lesson.
> kids
Yeah, all those CERN researcher kids at ProtonMail.
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#7If there’s something I’ve learnt of irc is that you don’t taunt those who can bring your connection down. Maybe this will teach these kids from ProtonMail a lesson.
> kids Yeah, all those CERN researcher kids at ProtonMail.
One of the PIA co-founders made a pretty convincing case that protonmail is probably not ran by a bunch of CERN researchers.
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#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
> kids Yeah, all those CERN researcher kids at ProtonMail.
One of the PIA co-founders made a pretty convincing case that protonmail is probably not ran by a bunch of CERN researchers. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17258203
The argument is that ProtonVPN is run as a joint venture between Protonmail and the people who run NordVPN. It states nothing about Protonmail.
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#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
> kids Yeah, all those CERN researcher kids at ProtonMail.
One of the PIA co-founders made a pretty convincing case that protonmail is probably not ran by a bunch of CERN researchers. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17258203
This is completely false by the way. ProtonVPN is created by the ProtonMail team, which has many CERN scientists on staff. This is public record and can be verified by simply looking at the scientific papers they have published:
ProtonMail CEO Andy Yen (former CERN physicist): http://inspirehep.net/search?ln=en&p=Andy+Yen&of=hb&action_s...
ProtonMail CTO Bart Butler (also former CERN physicist): http://inspirehep.net/search?ln=en&ln=en&p=bart+butler&of=hb...
TED Talk about ProtonMail given by ProtonMail CEO: https://www.ted.com/talks/andy_yen_think_your_email_s_privat...
So the evidence that ProtonMail is run by former CERN researchers is actually quite overwhelming.
Re: ProtonMail DDoS Attacks Are a Case Study of What Happens When You Mock Attackers
#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
One of the PIA co-founders made a pretty convincing case that protonmail is probably not ran by a bunch of CERN researchers. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17258203
The argument is that ProtonVPN is run as a joint venture between Protonmail and the people who run NordVPN. It states nothing about Protonmail.
This is also not true. ProtonVPN and ProtonMail are not related to NordVPN in any way. The only possible "connection" if you can call it that, is that we might use some of the same server providers (Leaseweb, Amazon, OVH, etc).