ProtonMail BTFO >Protonmail complies with authorities and scans emails.
Pasta from restore privacy. Huge News! ProtonMail has admitted to VOLUNTARY surveillance and cooperation with law enforcement. They are not even compelled to do this, but voluntarily will target and log users, and then provide this information to authorities without a court order! They have done this as recently as April 2019. Sven, you should cover this. A lawyer in Switzerland recently covered this topic on his website and also pointed out that ProtonMail is lying to their users about privacy protections. It’s all marketing and lies. steigerlegal.ch/2019/05/23/protonmail-echtzeit-ueberwachung/ And here is the English translation, archived:archive.is/2wJVx
> 324/5000 Prosecutor Walder from the Cybercrime Competence Center contacted me because he was misquoted. He did not say at the mentioned event that ProtonMail would voluntarily publish real-time data. He referred to ProtonMail merely as a potential provider of Inbound Communication Services (AAKD). fuck off.
Connor Jenkins
There is no privacy on any network connected device. Only a fool would assume otherwise.
Interesting stuff, but I'd be skeptical of anything restoreprivacy says. Reminder that they intentionally spread FUD about TOR as a means of shilling for VPN companies for profit. warosu.org/g/thread/S69830214#p69831770 start at this post and go down through the reply chain.
Nicholas Watson
Does Protonmail somehow encrypt every email or something so it is troublesome to open it? I once sent an email from my protonmail account to my professor and he said he "doesnt open such emails" lmao, to this i dont know what he meant
Luis Taylor
He’s probably just retarded
Nolan Phillips
supplement
Prosecutor Walder from the Cybercrime Competence Center contacted me because he was misquoted. He did not say at the mentioned event that ProtonMail would voluntarily publish real-time data. He referred to ProtonMail merely as a potential provider of Inbound Communication Services (AAKD).
I broadcast the mentioned event live, including the instructive lecture by prosecutor Walder. The statement that ProtonMail was a (potential) AAKD would have been too commonplace to be mentioned. The note, however, that ProtonMail voluntarily offer hand for real-time monitoring, was spectacular and was sprinted by me accordingly. As mentioned, ProtonMail refers to at least one real-time monitoring in the transparency report.
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Isaiah Sanders
no, only from proton to proton.
anyways, the whole article is bait. TLDR is that of course swiss authorities can touch protonmail users and protonmail is obliged to gain access to everything they know about said user if they court order them to. the main selling point of protonmail is "no data mining" and "privacy since we encrypt your mailbox", not "we rather die in a shootout with the swiss police than giving up your username".
Levi Nguyen
If you send an encrypted mail from Protonmail to any external recipient, they only get a link to a Protonmail page where they can enter the key you agreed upon earlier and read your message. Unencrypted mails work like expected, but if you've had prior experience with Protonmail you might confuse both. Using your self-generated PGP key for sending encrypted mails outside of Protonmail is still not supported, you can only export your public key in PGP format.
