tutanota being a honeypot is not what I was expecting to hear today lmao
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oh yeah definitely, wasnt there some leak that they gave data to swiss secret agencies?
Seems like the best option is to just selfhost email nowadays
Seems like the best option is to just selfhost email nowadays
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@rose They gave the IP address of someone making bomb threats to some agency. A US one I think.
They always felt off to me and got shilled hard by "privacy" and "security" advocates, so that immediately makes them less trustworthy to me. Besides that, the whole reason for using them, email encryption, only works when you send emails from Proton to Proton.
Email transport can be unencrypted anyway between the various MTAs depending on the route, so pretending that email can be private is a half-truth at best.
They always felt off to me and got shilled hard by "privacy" and "security" advocates, so that immediately makes them less trustworthy to me. Besides that, the whole reason for using them, email encryption, only works when you send emails from Proton to Proton.
Email transport can be unencrypted anyway between the various MTAs depending on the route, so pretending that email can be private is a half-truth at best.
I don't trust any company that tries to advertise encrypted email
email is just an unencrypted format, if someone wants to exchange encrypted data they should just use a direct messenger or exchange pgp encrypted data, anyone who tries to sell encrypted email is just a scammer
email is just an unencrypted format, if someone wants to exchange encrypted data they should just use a direct messenger or exchange pgp encrypted data, anyone who tries to sell encrypted email is just a scammer
@rose@snac.pinkro.se @phnt@fluffytail.org I recommend against Proton Mail because they try to lock you in into their email service with anti-user dark-patterns. It's not just that you have to pay to use your favorite mail client, but you also have to pay to forward mail from your address to another. In other words, you cannot slowly transition to another service without losing mail that still goes to Proton! If you want to use another service, you will have to pay Proton a subscription /forever/ to keep getting forwarded mail. You cannot even download your old mail using POP3 without paying. They have some random utility they tell you to download and run on your machine which would download an export of your data. Extremely anti-user behavior. Even Microsoft and Google have the decency to allow you to setup a forwarding address and download your data using POP3 or even just as a zip archive. Ridiculous.
