In 'The Terminal List', the main character shows how he's using proton mail to keep 'anonymous'. If Hollywoke is recommending something ...
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No, Proton was ordered to turn over data, and complied.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/secure-email-provider-protonmail-handed-over-user-data-to-europol/
The first couple paragraphs indicate that only IP addresses were shared. Is there anything that shows that email contents were shared?
Using an independent VPN (IDK which) to access the servers might be enough.
It was stated around this or another event a couple years ago that Proton is pretty integrated into the Globohomo network, and that their database system was running similar to other email providers such that it's effectively the same as giving your shit directly to whatever state agency you thought you'd be avoiding.
I have no opinions on this, I think VPN's and everything else is fucked anyways. Decades ago the surveillance state shut down everything good anyways. P2P gpg encryption services, personal encryption lockers shut down, etc.
Id say Mulvad is a damn good vpn, they got attacked by the feds and forced to turn things over...and the feds found nothing because they had nothing
If you use it to sign up for weird porn sites you are probably fine. If you use it to conspire about dirty bombs probably not.
I did like the terminal list thing of using the drafts foldet as a dead drop but with the LLMs slurping up everything even that stuff will probably get flagged.
I'm not criminal mastermind but my theorycraft is that if you combine two methods of obfuscation, say private mail + steganography then you will never be the lowest hanging fruit. And of course never being the biggest fish in the pond.
Just looking to get a completely anonymous twitter account. Proton VPN was suggested but I have my doubts.
They claim to use zero access encryption, meaning you hold the key client side. I presume it’s generated somehow from, your username and password. If everything is hashed properly, meaning Proton isn’t deliberately just lying, then the contents of your email box are fairly secure. If they were to hand your email box to the government it should be not much they could do.
I don’t think they’ve ever claimed to be defiant of legal requests, and they sort of have to have your username to be able to service email accounts at all. Swiss privacy law is still better than a lot of places. I’m not sure I really want a defiant of the law email provider as they will just get shut down entirely.
If you’re doing highly illegal activity, just using a secure email shouldn’t even be close to the opsec standard. Keys should only be held in the brains of the user and encrypted/decrypted with offline tools. If you just want above average security and not having your email catalogued and sold to AI models, IMO Proton is sufficient.
This is the real case here. There is no such thing as secure email. Peer to Peer chat services are the way to go.
Ask Lavabit what happens when you genuinely refuse to comply with legal requests to access emails.
No. They have already arrested some Proton users.
Nah, there used to be a privacy watchdog website that exposed some of their issues, site's dead now unfortunately.
I'd probably recommend tutanota or something for email, and mullvad or expressvpn for a vpn
How’s “The Terminal List” as a show overall? Worth a watch if I enjoy Tom Clancy or Vince Flynn books? Without Remorse movie was a fucking disgrace.
It's was 'good' over-all, watched it a year ago. About what you could expect from an Amazon show. This time the 'meat head' also did the tech work. I believe it also suffers from the obligatory Hollywoke 'female fighter buddy' syndrome. "Women can fight just as well as men!" As I recall, it was a pilot this time around.
One episode was hilariously bad to the point of godawful, though. It involves a lot of mud. I can only assume they were shaking their heads or laughing out loud while recording those scenes. But other than that it was relatively enjoyable. Haven't really been watching a lot of television in the last couple of years. So my 'finely honed instincts' have somewhat atrophied.
I wouldn’t recommend it if you were plotting to overthrow the government, but it has some solid security for normal e-mail stuff if you’re looking to discourage your average bad guy.
Cock mail is the only email service I trust, but they're going through some turbulence at the moment.