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So with FastMail under Australian privacy-bashing laws and now this, what are our options for secure, private e-mail?
So tutanota would be a good alternative to protonmail. And mailbox.org is a good alternative to fastmail. Both are based in Germany.
So with FastMail under Australian privacy-bashing laws and now this, what are our options for secure, private e-mail?
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They claim that they don’t keep logs on their French homepage. The climate activist is French: https://twitter.com/onestlatech/status/1434596410977030155?s... And even on their English website, the marketing is misleading. They say that the service is "anonymous" and also: "By default, we do not keep any IP logs which can be linked to your anonymous email account".
The CEO's position on Twitter is that "by default" (from the sentence you're quoting) means when there is no criminal investigation, but when there is a legal order in place, Protonmail will collect the IP... https://twitter.com/andyyen/status/1434600373059297284 "As described in the link above, under Swiss law, we can be forced to collect info on accounts belonging to users under criminal investigation. This is obvi…
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They never advertised that they don’t keep logs they just said they aren’t permanent, in fact you can view your own connection logs if you enable it in which case they are maintained forever. https://protonmail.com/privacy-policy They also provide a report of all warrants received https://protonmail.com/blog/transparency-report/
Literally on their front page: > No personal information is required to create your secure email account. By default, we do not keep any IP logs which can be linked to your anonymous email account. Your privacy comes first.
Vendors really need to figure out how to thread the needle of "No don't trust us" but still encourage customers to buy. Protonmail failed here. Apple's still very much in the "trust no one but us!" vibe, and it's just not sustainable.
I'll be switching my Protonmail use to default to Tor now. Open to Tor-first vendors...are there any?
I like how Brave has "open in Tor" displayed on Tor-mirrored sites. There's even an option for "Automatically redirect .onion" sites too. Makes it easy to switch over.
What if Protonmail pushed their Tor services more? "Guide to using Protonmail as privately as possible", have a switch for "Private Mode" that kicks you over to Tor/download Tor.
https://www.wired.com/2015/10/mr-robot-uses-protonmail-still...
So with FastMail under Australian privacy-bashing laws and now this, what are our options for secure, private e-mail?
I wonder what this “activist” did to earn himself Europol attention. At least before the world went insane, that would only happen for serious crimes.