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sitzkrieg 3 days ago

proton always glowed but just straight up bending to unnamed agencies puts em rank and file with every single other provider

lo_zamoyski 3 days ago | parent [-]

Is refusal realistic? It's nice in the abstract, but in practice, there are plenty of ways to coerce illegitimate compliance.

bigiain 3 days ago | parent [-]

No company is gonna seriously refuse when their jurisdiction's equivalent of the FBI or NSA turn up with a court authorised order. As James Mikkens said: "YOU'RE STILL GONNA BE MOSSAD’ED UPON"

But it'd be nice to be able to expect your email provider to not cave in to a request from some other counties CERT organisation without pushing back for evidence and some sort of proper judicial authority behind the request.

crossroadsguy 3 days ago | parent [-]

This article, right? https://www.usenix.org/system/files/1401_08-12_mickens.pdf

bigiain 2 days ago | parent [-]

indeed