The “privacy-first” company surprised its user base when CEO Andy Yen lauded Trump on social media.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/30934764

The “privacy-first” company surprised its user base when CEO Andy Yen lauded Trump on social media.

  • smittenEnglish
    2·
    2 days ago

    Well good thing I just switched to mxroute

    • lemmeBe@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      14·
      2 days ago

      MXroute doesn’t cater to users who require end-to-end encryption, advanced privacy features, or those who need built-in security measures beyond standard email protocols, as it’s primarily focused on reliable email delivery and hosting rather than security-first communication.

      Tuta would be a viable alternative to Proton.

      • heavydust@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        3·
        1 day ago

        security measures beyond standard email protocols

        Doesn’t exist. The only security you can have is if you use OpenPGP. Everything else is marketing and lies.

        • schizo@forum.uncomfortable.businessEnglish
          1·
          19 hours ago

          Came here to follow up with this.

          I don’t care what magic beans my email provider wants to sell, at the end of the day they’re only able to do encryption within their own server which is pointless.

          Anyone who thinks email is not immediately plain-text when they hit the send button (because, frankly, it is) is suffering from some weird marketing-induced delusion, or just plain doesn’t understand that proton encrypting something, or SSL in transit is not going to do a single damn thing to improve security.

          Sure my copy of an email is all nice and secure, but the other copy of it almost certainly not, unless you use something like GPG to force the contents to be transmitted encrypted, and fucking nobody uses GPG outside of very limited situations.

        • smittenEnglish
          2·
          1 day ago

          Agreed. I also notice proton stores your gpg keys in the cloud, unlocked by your account password.

      • smittenEnglish
        3·
        2 days ago

        No they don’t, but I never switched to proton for that. I switched to proton to get away from iCloud. I also never loved the idea of them keeping my gpg key in the cloud, I can just as easily do e2e with mxroute in a more secure way