@Pyrogenesis "The headline is not biased" - so I'll ask again: Did Proton help the FBI? Or did Proton comply with a Swiss Court Order, and the Swiss government helped the FBI?

A more unbiased headline might be, "Proton turns over user payment information because of Swiss Court Order".

I'm not blaming a victim. I'm demanding better activism. We live in a world where organized activism is becoming more and more crucial, and it's the responsibility of activists, especially those organizing activism, to understand the capabilities and limitations of their communications networks.

I'm not blaming anyone. I'm saying I want people to realize that it doesn't matter if this was Proton, or Tuta, or some other "private" service, and realize that they are all beholden to legal systems that determine the minimal amount of data that must be collected, the length of time it has to be retained, and how personally identifiable that information is.

So if I'm "blaming the victim" by saying, "There is a valuable lesson to be learned here, and it's not just dunking on Proton" then sure, that's what I'm doing and I stand by it.

EDIT
For anyone going, "tHiS iS wHy I uSe TuTa!", here's a link to a page with a big red banner that Tuta rejected 75% of all court orders in 2025. Which is very cool, don't get me wrong - that's super cool - but what are those other 25%?
https://tuta.com/blog/transparency-report

Am I more into Tuta than Proton at this point? Yep. Do I think Proton was really the issue this time? Nope.

Stay sharp.

@adrienne “no way to stop this from happening” says the only major privacy-oriented company where this keeps happening

also lol @ the bros blaming the proton user for not paying with cryptocurrency when proton’s preferred grift, bitcoin, is a fucking privacy nightmare that the feds are very good at tracing