ProtonMail deletes 'we don't log your IP' from website after activist arrested

Post by dragonwriter » Tue, Sep 07, 2021, 10:12 PM UTC

annoyingnoob wrote: post #330

istingray wrote: post #260

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China-Email: Would be interesting to buy email hosting from a super secure email service based out of China. Basically a "trust in math" approach where they operate despite adversaries. With huge claims on the website: - No physical security: our offices don't even have locks - Pro-crime-CEO: our CEO is a known (and future) criminal - Political: we seriously try to read your email for the cops but we cant :( - None o…

> - Pro-crime-CEO: our CEO is a known (and future) criminal Best to not have employees if they know the CEO is pro-crime. I mean why not eBay all of the company's equipment on my personal account? Just towing the company line.

Post by dredmorbius » Tue, Sep 07, 2021, 10:17 PM UTC

stjohnswarts wrote: post #261

samstave wrote: post #245

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Whats the corollary with brick-and-mortar: Assume you're an all cash business - can governments require that you take and log every customer's ID?

Of course they can, at least in the US, however if someone asks for my ID while paying cash I will say "fuck that" and turn around and leave their brick building.

Post by panda88888 » Tue, Sep 07, 2021, 11:07 PM UTC

OrvalWintermute wrote: post #174

teekert wrote: post #128

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I thought those impenetrable looking mountains were part of their datacenter defenses.

Nope, that is what you need to scale to reach their customer support.

Post by syops » Wed, Sep 08, 2021, 1:01 AM UTC

drra wrote: post #336

syops wrote: post #323

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You missed, entirely, the point made by the person you responded to.

He didn't. By stating that he has now way of verifying he most likely meant that he exhaust all the ways, within his ability, to verify it. While the other poster made no effort to verify if Jacques is not a bot (it's easy). There's a difference in actively verifying given statements and passively accepting all that is written or all doubts that a busy mind can produce.

Post by picklebutt » Wed, Sep 08, 2021, 2:36 AM UTC

zxcvbn4038 wrote: post #284

cbg0 wrote: post #209

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"Bent over in all directions" is a bit of an exaggeration, most countries nowadays abide by various conventions to prevent money laundering & terrorism funding, since the G7 founded the FATF https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Financial_Action_Task_Force

Ironic since the US is more or less the world leader for money laundering and tax evasion. It also bothers me that the US has spent billions of dollars over the past several decades fighting narcotics just to turn around and make them legal. They must have passed the "It's Ok When We Get Our Cut" Act when I wasn't looking.