just adrienneSo if you're using Proton thinking it's "privacy-focused", it turns out they're giving data to the Feebs now. https://www.404media.co/proton-mail-helped-fbi-unmask-anonymous-stop-cop-city-protestor/
Bill, organizer of stuff@adrienne I'm no defender of Proton (looking for an offroad from them, actually), but in this case, they were compelled by legal action from the Swiss government to hand over payment data. Since the payor had used a credit card that traced back to an individual, the Swiss government could find that person. And the FBI somehow (legally?) got ahold of the data from the Swiss. This circumstance is not unique to Proton - it would apply to any legally operating business with credit card customers. 🤦
Weird Socks
rk: it’s hyphen-minus actuallyThe problem is there’s not much that can be done, ultimately. If you run your own mail server, you’re exposed in a million ways: domain registrar, hosting provider, etc. Short of some sort of “account identifier and pay with an envelope of cash in a hole in a tree every month” anonymous mail hosting isn’t a thing.
Encrypted-at-rest is nice but honestly it does add a fair amount of friction and I’m getting old.
@rk @ohmu @wcbdata i don't know anything about Posteo but apparently they firewall your payment data away from your account data somehow? So they might be an alternative. https://furry.engineer/@ysegrim/116181161858800673
Ysegrim (@[email protected])
@[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] While Posteo.de stores your payment details (they have to), they do not connect it to your account. The only information connected to your account is _that_ you paid. Meaning, while they already straight out reject a third of their requests for formal incorrectness (and file complaints), last year they never provided any user/payment data because they straight up do not store it. https://posteo.de/en/site/transparency_report