#Protonmail #CopCity
Reposting this about the Protonmail collaboration to bring this commentary to the front and ensure it is seen:
Responding to
https://mastodon.social/@h4ckernews/116178994327797393
This of course means Protonmail can no longer be trusted, so for any email that needs to be secure use anonymous random numbered accounts and PGP/GPG used locally to encrypt and decrypt messages That's how SHAC (Stop Huntingdon's Animal Cruelty) used to do it and neither the US nor the UK was ever able to defeat their encrypted emails to my knowledge
Weak spot in this case was the account was a paid account, thus identifiable by payment info. This attack might have failed against a free account.
No paid online account should ever be considered secure unless MAYBE managed only w prepaid cards bought with cash from a variety of locations and not requiring personal info to activate.
At the Stop Cop City level the cards should be purchased by someone who does nothing else and ideallly pass through a "cutout," which is a courier again doing nothing else
Also cash (accepted by Proton it seems) should not come from an ATM due to risk of serial numbers being recorded or recoverable. I read somewhere that some ATMs are dispensing sequentially serial numbered bills.