🐦‍🔥nemo™🐦‍⬛ 🇺🇦🍉Mar 6

Proton Mail's payment data aided the FBI in unmasking an anonymous "Stop Cop City" protester's identity, per court docs. 🔍Swiss authorities shared the credit card details after a legal order—highlighting privacy limits despite end-to-end encryption. Proton stresses anonymous payment options like crypto or cash to avoid traces. 📧⚖️ https://cyberinsider.com/proton-mail-payment-data-helped-fbi-identify-stop-cop-city-account-holder/ #ProtonMail #Privacy #StopCopCity #Newz

Moral of the story don't be an idiot, use tor when using Proton for activism & don't rely on their🔑1/4

Proton Mail payment data helped FBI identify ‘Stop Cop City’ account holder

Privacy-focused email provider Proton Mail supplied payment-related subscriber data to Swiss authorities that was later shared with the FBI.

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2/4 #protonmail quote "Use Tor for anonymous access
There is a difference between security/privacy, and anonymity. As we wrote in our public threat model (published back in 2014), “The Internet is generally not anonymous, and if you are breaking Swiss law, a law-abiding company such as Proton Mail can be legally compelled to log your IP address.” This cannot be changed due to how the internet works. However…
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3/4 "…we understand this is concerning for individuals with certain threat models, which is why since 2017, we also provide an onion site for anonymous access (we are one of the only email providers that supports this). " source:

https://proton.me/blog/climate-activist-arrest

And for communication between each other, use either Signal or Molly (Android only) https://molly.im/

Important clarifications regarding arrest of climate activist | Proton

We would like to provide important clarifications regarding the case of the climate activist who was arrested by French police.

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4/4 Set your number to invisible so that no one can get ahold of it. Set an individual nickname which you delete after establishing contact, then create a new one.

Go to Settings > Privacy > Phone Number.

Set Who can see my number to Nobody (hides it from everyone except saved contacts). Set Who can find me by my number to Nobody (prevents lookups via your number). Both Nobody

Use a Username Instead

In Settings > Profile > Username, create a unique username (e.g., yourname.1234).