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Written by Jay Baker on 2025-01-28 at 22:46

Proton Says It’s "Politically Neutral" While Praising Republican Party. "It's reasonable to worry that tech companies' backbone for protecting users in this way might soften when they get too politically involved with any one administration," said Andrew Crocker, EFF's surveillance litigation director. https://theintercept.com/2025/01/28/proton-mail-andy-yen-trump-republicans/ #Proton #ProtonMail #AndyYen

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Written by Jay Baker on 2025-01-28 at 22:47

"While Proton states that it 'cannot read any of your messages or hand them over to third parties,' the same doesn’t apply to email subjects; sender or recipient names and email addresses; the time a message was sent; or other information in the 'header' section of email messages."

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Written by Jay Baker on 2025-01-28 at 22:58

For those interested in the alternative options to Proton and their various services, check out my previous posts about this over the last week. (I actually have files syncing elsewhere as I write this, so bye bye Proton...)

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Written by MiniMia 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇵🇸 on 2025-01-28 at 23:03

@MediaActivist Opened an account with Tuta yesterday ✊

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Written by Jay Baker on 2025-01-28 at 23:07

@fkamiah17 That's awesome. An interesting difference from them here, too: While, like Proton, mail addresses, senders and recipients remain unencrypted by Tuta, unlike Proton they keep subject lines encrypted alongside attachments, address books, the entire search index, calendars, and even metadata such as notifications.

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Written by Storka Nisch on 2025-01-30 at 05:30

@MediaActivist @fkamiah17

Tuta is regularly compliant with police demands for account data, though, an important anti-feature beyond the technicalities of email encryption.

https://tuta.com/blog/transparency-report

For a few options that are less likely to do that (which isn't to say they don't have their own limitations):

https://paper.wf/downas/where-to-get-an-anticapitalist-anti-surveillance-email-address

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Written by Jay Baker on 2025-01-30 at 09:20

@storkanisch @fkamiah17 That's really useful, thanks! It is definitely all about threat modelling - balancing daily user-friendly reliable use with chance of raids. Obviously, any activists carrying out anonymous, often illegal acts, will require much more than the average politically aware person needing an email to, say, link their shopping accounts to.

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Written by Storka Nisch on 2025-01-30 at 13:18

@MediaActivist @fkamiah17

Right, & just like it helps to have people using PM who don't have urgent need for encryption, it helps to have people using the left/radical options who don't expect to face political repression personally.

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Written by Jay Baker on 2025-01-30 at 16:55

@storkanisch @fkamiah17 I use some of the more radical options, and have supported a lot over the years, but I wouldn't always recommend all of them all of the time - that's why user-friendly options like Tuta are great (unlike Proton); we don't have to use a sledgehammer to crack a peanut.

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