Od długiego czasu jestem użytkownikiem Proton Mail. Dzisiaj skorzystałem z oferty bezpłatnego wypróbowania Proton Mail Plus. Grzebię po ustawieniach, jedną z opcji zabezpieczeń jest dodanie numeru telefonu, co w razie problemów ma pozwolić na odzyskanie konta. Zrobiłem to (wiem, że wiele osób sugeruje, że nie należy tego robić), po odświeżeniu interfejsu zobaczyłem ten komunikat. Nawet nie wiem, jak to skomentować... #ProtonMail
Komunikat wyświetlający się w interfejsie poczty Proton po podaniu numeru telefonu jako środka pozwalającego odzyskać konto w razie problemów: Disable recovery by phone to prevent attackers from taking over your account
As a reminder, #ProtonMail have admitted they used OpenPGP-encrypted email subjects to moderate their service from illegal activites (under the Swiss juridiction) so they de facto had access to your entire mailbox view, they just couldn’t open your emails.
They have a lame reputation in the infosec field and activists seldom use them for technical and political reasons, despite what they’re claiming.
Especially interesting for me is the use of #Rust: about 80% of the code is shared between the platforms now. This is thanks to #UniFFI allowing us to write native Swift/Kotlin code on top of a solid Rust core.
If you read their Terms of Service, at first glance, they reference the laws of Switzerland. However, because they now have offices in the United States — along with registrations, trademarks, copyrights, and patents in the U.S. — they also cite U.S. laws. The only two countries you'll see mentioned are Switzerland and the United States — nothing else.
Their CEO has, on several occasions, also praised Donald Trump. Additionally, Proton left the Fediverse because they couldn’t silence users there as they have on platforms like Facebook or Reddit. The fact that they’re now trying to silence journalists doesn’t surprise me.
Buried in Proton's AI announcement today is a pretty shocking detail about their service 👀
Because of legal uncertainty around Swiss government proposals to introduce mass surveillance — proposals that have been outlawed in the EU — Proton is moving most of its physical infrastructure out of Switzerland. Lumo will be the first product to move.
Infographic titled "EMAIL GUIDE" from the "Purchase With Purpose" series, encouraging users to avoid big tech email providers (Gmail, iCloud Mail, Outlook) due to concerns like privacy, environment, and ethics. It highlights email services and clients supporting causes: Environmental 🌱, Profit Share 💰, and Open-Source 💻.
Two main sections:
Email Clients (used independently or with servers):
🔸 Thunderbird (Open-Source)
🔸 EM Client (Profit Share)
🔸 FairEmail (Open-Source, Android only)
🔸 Mailspring (Open-Source, USA)
Eco-System providers (offer mobile app/tools):
🔸 Kolab Now (Open-Source)
🔸 Fastmail
🔸 Mailbox.org (Environmental, Open-Source)
"Need Help Choosing?" recommends:
🔸 Fastmail (ease of use)
🔸 Infomaniak Email (eco-system, free tier)
🔸 Tuta Mail (privacy)
🔸 Proton Mail (privacy, tools)
Good luck. As of this writing, I have UNINSTALLED copilot from Windows 11 Pro FOURTEEN TIMES in the past 3 weeks. I continually turn off its access to running in the background and terminate and its services in task manager multiple times a day. I've blocked the app in my non-MS antimalware suite. I have uac enabled to block unauthorized apps. I have disabled it in my startup apps repeatedly, to no avail .
I have disabled Edge browser everywhere possible, but Edge still manages to open itself up and REOPEN COPILOT even though I've disabled Edge multiple times and it is literally not the default app for even a single file type.
It's no longer POSSIBLE to install a single Office app, or uninstall single office apps. I do not need and do not want to bloat a ton of my SSD boot drive with Access and Designer and Publisher. The windows store standalone version of Outlook cannot load or save .pst backups.
MS has returned to even worse than its evil Borg ways. But now it's one of several threats to the continued existence of privacy anywhere for anyone.
Up with companies based in countries with strong privacy protections, that provide zero-knowledge services, and that do zero or minimal logging and discard logs swiftly (yay for thegood.cloud)!
The last segment of my working life was doing technical writing for software companies in #SiliconValley. Understanding the software was easy, I had been a programmer for a long time before becoming a #techWriter.
The hard part was trying to put things into terms my audience would 'get' and I really admire people who can do that.
That’s why I devour everything
@Daojoan sends out.
She got me to #Vivaldi and #Joplin and helped me see that privacy and software freedom is more than #LibreOffice and #ProtonMail.
Go read her stuff. You won’t be disappointed.
Unfortunately, this year I could not join nor organize any in-person celebration, BUT of course I want to share my gratitude to the many, countless#FreeSoftware services I don’t merely use, but actually depend on.
Last year, I decided to focus only on #YunoHost, because it would have been crazy to list all the projects I use and I love.
This time, even if I will most certainly forget someone, I am challenging myself to mention all the #LibreSoftware my life is powered by.
#Firefox, for still remaining the best possible #browser choice, despite #Mozilla’s governance messiness
@openstreetmap, for allowing us to find the right path, both literally and metaphorically!
@organicmaps, for being the simplest, cleanest, yet feature-rich #OSM client and navigation app
@protonvpn, for making me browse safely from/to anywhere in the planet and
@protonprivacy#ProtonMail, for hosting my email, despite the latest alarming political statements…
@libreoffice, for allowing me to draft documents with ease, the last of which was my #CV
#LanguageTool, for preventing me from making embarassing spelling mistakes
@photoprism, for safely storing and indexing all my photographic memories, on Aby, and for providing stellar and friendly support too!
#Actual, for moderating the very likely risk of ending up completely broke, since it forces me to manage my finances consciously and coherently
@readeck, for storing and sorting ALL my varied and overwhelming inputs
@nextcloud, for storing and synchronizing my data, for its #calendar, its #tasks, and all its awesome apps
#Rustdesk, for preventing my friends and family members from going crazy, by allowing me to remotely connect to their devices and directly address the issues they have
@forgejo, for giving us a chance to truly control and collectively develop the sources of our software, but most importantly
@Codeberg, for RESISTING, RESISTING, RESISTING, despite the hatred and attacks nazi assholes throw at them
@musicbrainz for keeping music knowledge open and free, and
@ListenBrainz for scrobbling the crazy music I listen to
The
@fsfe, for promoting this celebration and fighting the good fight!
Lastly, but most importantly, the biggest thank you goes to all the free software libraries and dependencies the above mentioned #software are made of/built with, including #C, #JavaScript, #Python, #Rust, and all community-maintained programming languages.
you'd need to compare the checksums of their web-based cryptography at every login,
you could use their bridge but you'd need to give your OpenPGP passphrase to change your settings, for no reason
they have the CIA at their administration council,
they have an history of unethical behavior toward Twitter survivors,
they have an history of spreading conspiracy theories,
they have an history of contacting hosting providers asking them to remove blog posts,
they didn't share the Lavabit fundraiser so they could get quietly issued a US National Security Letter (overriding the First Amendment and preventing Ladar from appealing),
they can access to your entire mailbox anyway, not just to the email contents,
this has enabled the arrest of Social and Climatic Justice activists, they replied they couldn't resist a Swiss court order (so that's not their fault I guess, the tech is just bad)…
Why would you trust them for your opsec, and why would you enable them further?
" What about Proton VPN? I think they are in Europe."
A division of Proton is now a US-based company. Particularly, Proton Wallet. Their Terms of Services, also goes into lengths concerning Us Laws and Us Customers. It goes beyond just the CEO's support for fascism leadership (Donald Trump).
Naturally, making this list is not easy. These are two types of companies I avoided in making my list.
Those who actually fall under US-jurisdiction because they are based or owned by a company in the USA.
More than often, I will stumble over a company that appears to be outside the USA, but later find they are owned by another corporation based inside the USA, and so they do fall under US-jurisdiction.
Those who voluntarily give up their sovereignty to the United States. The 2nd type, who voluntarily gives up their sovereignty in the way of US jurisdiction, have whole sections of their terms concerning US Laws and US based customers. If a fascist government says jump, these people will ask, how high?!
Proton uses a trustless architecture. End-to-end encryption and zero access encryption means we cannot decrypt your messages and hand them over to governments.
Your privacy is mathematically ensured, and no election can change that.
Proton has the ability to provide foreign governments with copies of email content that is not encrypted, this can be done indirectly via Swiss authorities.
@protonprivacy I have this weird display error in Proton Mail web, where the Linkedin avatar get's squeezed. Does anybody know what the issue could be? First pic is from web - second pic is from Thunderbird. #protonmail#proton#thunderbird#issue
@protonprivacy Any comments on this wrt your CEO's comments from last week, saying that Republicans are the party of the little guy rather than big tech?
"the incoming Trump administration will rob U.S. law enforcement and the media of their independence and hand big tech companies "co-governing power", according to a confidential document seen by Reuters."
WTF? Fuck the corporate democrats / neoliberals, yes. Doesn’t mean you need to fawn over literal fucking fascists. Y’all think Peter Thiel and Elon Musk and the cadre of billionaires they have lined up for their administration are going to “tackle Big Tech abuses?”
What the fucking fuck, man?
Update: Proton deleted their post. Here’s a screenshot of it I took at the time because this ain’t my first rodeo.
Since it was the past, what is #Tuta current state about the multi-felon, fraudster, sexual predator, minor groomer, transphobic, conspiracy theorist, racist, ableist, shithead that Donald #Trump is?
Since you are Germans, what do you think of the islamophobic, conservatist, nazionalist, euroscepticist, climate denialist, chauvinist that the #AfD is?
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is proton still a viable alternative?
I know the CEO dug himself a pretty deep hole recently. ...