Lesley Carhart 
It’s both disingenuous to celebrate Proton (who are a business making money in a friendly nation) as bulletproof, and to compare them to Google, who make money by mining your email content. Understand your threat model and message accordingly. https://www.404media.co/proton-mail-helped-fbi-unmask-anonymous-stop-cop-city-protestor/
Proton Mail Helped FBI Unmask Anonymous ‘Stop Cop City’ Protester

A court record reviewed by 404 Media shows privacy-focused email provider Proton Mail handed over payment data related to a Stop Cop City email account to the Swiss government, which handed it to the FBI.

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Show threadJames Wynn 🧐Mar 7
@hacks4pancakes
I've been essentially saying the same. I use them and would generally recommend them, but they will ultimately comply with government demands. If your threat model involves hostile, powerful nations then you need something significantly more than Proton provides.
Show threadDraken BlackKnightMar 7
@hacks4pancakes
If I need to transmit something sensitive I'll tell people to message me via @signalapp or @session and not email even though I do have a paid Proton account.
Show threadDr Neenah Estrella-LunaMar 7
@hacks4pancakes Yes, and I do think that the headline misrepresents what actually happened.
Show threadhertgMar 7
@hacks4pancakes I agree, but I got one small nitpick. As someone from Switzerland it's hard to agree with the "friendly nation" part, we got our fair share of surveillance laws which are continuously expanded, search for BÜPF and VÜPF for some specifics. So that whole marketing term of "Swiss privacy laws" is getting more and more meaningless.
Show thread~w00p~Mar 7
@hertg "friendly" in the sense that both countries legally share info upon request.
Reg. the current revision of the surveillance law, Proton wd leave CH if it passed.
They already started to disinvest towards GER.
Show threadhertgMar 7
@w00p Oh that might have been a misunderstanding on my part. I read it as a value judgement first, but I guess they meant friendly as in "friendly to the US" which is factual of course.
Show threadLennard van OtterlooMar 7

@hacks4pancakes Agree. There is a business model in not cooperating with lawful requests but it would be a wildly different type of company than Proton is.

A different type with such a different cost base that you’d pay a lot extra for the service (and probably pay in less reliable service too).

Show threadWilla  Mar 9
@hacks4pancakes This makes me feel just a smidge better about going with an Aussie provider recently.