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Introducing Dark Web Monitoring for credential leaks | Proton (proton.me)
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[โ€“] pico@sh.itjust.works -3 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Proton revealed information to the FBI without hesitation when they asked. I will not be using proton.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2023/08/08/protonmail-fbi-search-led-to-a-suspect-threatening-a-2020-election-official/?sh=39c25608235c

[โ€“] emzili@programming.dev 2 points 6 months ago

They can only reveal metadata since they keep everything encrypted, but that was enough to track down this person's Proton recovery email address? That's disconcerting.

Trying to use a commercial privacy service to threaten election officials is definitely some dumb shit though, but I bet they could have avoided that outcome with some better opsec

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