Bigmurph6
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I couldn’t believe that they took a payment that really isn’t that big from a government to help them. Sounds more like protonmail just got paid for allowing spying on their information database
So did the govt just buy protonmail and all its encrypted information
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I couldn’t believe that they took a payment that really isn’t that big from a government to help them. Sounds more like protonmail just got paid for allowing spying on their information database
Ironside
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It might just be a knee jerk reaction to switch but better safe than sorry. I dumped my facebook about 2 years ago because I saw signs of government getting involved as well as information sharing and sure as shit, just a few months ago is when Facebook was proven to be doing exactly what I thought they were doing.
Islandswole
Forum moderator
Thanks for this info. Dumped.
Raphael3636
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No more proton for me jeez!
Ironside
Well-known member
The problem I see is that they use the press release as some sort of reassurance. There’s almost zero reason to do this unless you’re trying to make people more comfortable about the fact that they accepted money from the government. Why would you have to make people feel comfortable about it when there’s nothing nefarious going on? It’s the same crap our own media and government pulls. When they are trying to avert your attention from what’s going on in the background, they make a grand spectacle of the foreground.
TG1
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I’m very familiar with this. And protonmail is fine to use still. The grant money will towards an new encrypted drive protocol that eventually the Govts in EU will use to help protect them. This comes after the Germany political hacks and Germany even switched to opensource nextcloud encrypted drives with a multi-million contract with developers to help them. This is actually a positive step forward in the move to better technology.
Protonmail employs some really good cryptographers on staff. The problem is we need new protocols. But no one wants to pay for them to be developed and tested. The funds allow them to hire X amount of people dedicated to this. These companies like protonmail and tutanota have put source codes out for inspection by others. Now we can see where an application pulls its source from. Here’s the GitHub for protonmail.
This grant gives protonmail much more to work with at the expense of the EU. In return the govts can use the code themselves.
If you guys aren’t aware even in US law changed in December 2018 to allow politicians to hire and pay for internet security out of the campaign funds in an effort to stop chances of foriegn hacking.
Development should never stop and we shouldnt be using encryption protocols from 20+ years ago. But someone has to pay the bills to keep technology moving forward.
Protonmail employs some really good cryptographers on staff. The problem is we need new protocols. But no one wants to pay for them to be developed and tested. The funds allow them to hire X amount of people dedicated to this. These companies like protonmail and tutanota have put source codes out for inspection by others. Now we can see where an application pulls its source from. Here’s the GitHub for protonmail.
This grant gives protonmail much more to work with at the expense of the EU. In return the govts can use the code themselves.
If you guys aren’t aware even in US law changed in December 2018 to allow politicians to hire and pay for internet security out of the campaign funds in an effort to stop chances of foriegn hacking.
Development should never stop and we shouldnt be using encryption protocols from 20+ years ago. But someone has to pay the bills to keep technology moving forward.
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