ItWasntMeProton Mail Helped FBI Unmask Anonymous ‘Stop Cop City’ Protester
AssassassinI don’t really see how proton is the bad guy here. If they gave VPN logs, sure, they claim to not keep those. They make no claims that their email service is completely anonymous, though. If you’re going to do something that riles up the feds, use a disposable email or pay for email using a method that isn’t easily traceable. If this person had done that, proton wouldn’t have had any info to respond to the subpoena with.
Honestly it’s my take. I have proton. I know i’m paying with a credit card so if they were served a warrant for my information, they’d get it. BUT they wouldn’t get anything from my email because 1) It’s encrypted and 2) it’s encrypted with my own key and not the one generated by Proton when you create an account. I casually wonder if someone didn’t fully understand the nuance of things like this in the modern surveilance state.
KoboldCoterieUnless I’m misreading the article, that’s not at all what happened here and even with encrypted emails, you’d still have been caught. They knew the email address that allegedly belonged to the instigator; they just needed to connect that email address to an actual person, not to see the contents of their emails. The payment data made that connection.