Uh huh, so much for protecting data
Damn. And I got a proton email address a few years ago precisely because it was supposed to be more secure than Google.
I notice that they traced the user using his recovery email.
I have not set a proton recovery email or phone number. Nonetheless, I expect the NSA decrypts 100% of proton mail and identifies the IP addresses and real identities of every user and mail.
If you want anonymity, don’t use bits and bytes.
How does Spain have authority over another country?
The lesson here is that Proton mail IS secure. The contents of the emails were inaccessible to the provider. Yes, they gave up some info but they made sure that the only info they were able to give up was controlled by the user.
If they didn’t have a recovery email, there would have been nothing to turn over.
The takeaway is to not use a recovery email or at least one that isn’t traceable to you.
To get any anonymity these days, everything has to be wrapped in multiple layers to obscure origins. To find out something, it’s only a matter of how many resources and time are needed. Think of a spectrum from local cops to nation state level resources.
For instance, to send a hard to trace email you’d have to setup a burner machine with something like a secure linux distro - tails for instance. Connect to the internet via vpn on a public wi-fi with no security cameras in the area, and then send it from an email account that was setup using the same methods as above. To be safe, use a different machine and accounts each time and from geographically separated wi-fi points.
It can be done but would be a lot of work. One mistake and you’re caught.
>>The secure email service provided police with a recovery email address that revealed the pseudonym ‘Xuxo Rondinaire.’
You mean folks don’t use 10minutemail for their recovery addys?
Proton mail is owned by the World Economic forum.:
https://www.weforum.org/organizations/proton/
You are further empowering humanity’s greatest enemy when you use it.
Dang!
She said she was a virgin!
If I remember right, proton allowed me to get an account without a restore address. With a disclaimer that I was on my own and if I forget the password then I am screwed.
Fine...
Willing to bet that unless you wrote the code and control the servers... They ALL do this.
many high ranked ranking wash dc officials use protonmail
John Podesta was one of them.
I use protonmail. I just created a free new account and then I used that new account to be my recovery account. My new free account is recovered by my current account.
So the moral of the story is this,learn how to do /use/create 1 time pads use them by hand! This means Uncle Sam is totally out a the loop & can’t be in the loop unless you let the bastard in!😁