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Proton Mail Discloses User Data Leading to Arrest in Spain
(restoreprivacy.com)
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this post was submitted on 07 May 2024
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I like how no ones talking about how Apple (the one its fanboys say is most privacy centric company) was the one that helped identity the individual.
Proton leaked the recovery email. Apple has never given any guarantee about their mail service, which isn’t the case of Proton
Don’t put any recovery info on Proton
About that. I'm still making the transition from gmail and currently most of my mail still goes to gmail first and gets forwarded to Proton through their easy switch process. Surely this is just as up for grabs as a recovery email, right?
FWIW I'm not likely to be investigated any time soon so I'm not worried either way.
That's significantly worse privacy-wise, since Google gets a copy of everything.
A recovery email in this case was used to uncover the identity of the account-holder. Unless you're using proton mail anonymously (if you're replacing your personal gmail, then probably not) then you don't need to consider the recover email as a weakness.
Obviously, but I still haven't gone through all the things I've ever signed up to and changed my email to the proton one. When I sign up to new stuff I use Proton, this is a necessary step for transition... And one that is likely to stay in place for a very long time since I'm going to keep procrastinating it.
Excellent point.