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Re: Advocating for privacy in Australia

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post #72

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It's weird that you take this stance. It almost feels like you're implying that ProtonMail is a bad actor, and end to end encryption is bad because 'civic duty'. That's like "but terrorism". I understand that you're not a privacy-first company, but still, your communications haven't been reassuring me. There is extensive documentation (e.g. Yahoo FISA) that ALL content not end-to-end-encrypted is ingested for bulk su…

Most email being transmitted on the Internet is in unencrypted form. Most people are not on ProtonMail and do not have a PGP key published. If I were to guess, I’d say that 99%+ emails sent or received by ProtonMail customers are seen by ProtonMail’s servers in unencrypted form.

> Most email being transmitted on the Internet is in unencrypted form.

Really? I use Hotmail, GMail, and Yahoo, and all of these use TLS so it is encrypted in transit.

Re: Advocating for privacy in Australia

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post #64

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Damn, I just lost $100. Thanks. We had a bet on how long it would take for somebody to say "just relocate your entire company and all your staff's lives to another jurisdiction".

It's the best solution. Given how mindbogglingly expensive your product is, you could try your best at least.

Mindbogglingly expensive?
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