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Let's see what europes e2ee ban will bring. Proton is one of the "high risk" services mentioned in the bills debate. Might not be too long before you have to host your own mail server if you want privacy in europe.
I'm probably going to downvoted to hell with this... But didn't people say Proton might be a government Op, even Tuta was mentioned as a honeypot in a recent Court case, so they released a blog post titled: Tuta is not a honeypot....
Idk... my guts tell me, if something is too good to be true, then it's not true... Proton offerings are amazing for a free plan... And their clients looks good and they sponsor YT channels... I used to be happy to see an Open source project succeed as a business, but the concept of honeypots, made me rethink my view
Idk... my gut tells me... didn't people say... might be... I'm probably going to be down voted to hell... if something's too good to be true...
What a ridiculous response.
what's so ridiculous about it?
I quoted the bits that answer your question and which completely undermine the bits I didn't quote.
first of it's a comment not a response.. secondly, you quoted everything in wrong order to make it appealing to further ridicule, which brings me to my last but not least point, is that what you do? you find something ridiculous and get your dopamine kick by saying how ridiculous it is!
Not what I asked, I don't see ridiculousness in my comment, so if you care to reply with feedback, please do, otherwise stop bothering me
This is all kinda of weirdness. You were the one who asked me a question, and I responded to it. And now I'm done. Have a nice day.
lmao, wow...
You thinking it's a honeypot is a win for the government. All they need to do is spread some propaganda instead of actually bothering to run a service that is hard to keep alive. And if they were to run a honeypot, having it outside 14 eyes countries would be the most stupid decision the government could make.
Good point, but I didn't think of it that way just because, I saw things and read stuff that made me suspect it...
But they did, and it worked for them before, and it'll always work unless no one start using that service, so there's no point in keeping servers operational.. time for a rebrand. plus they're getting paid.
having it outside the US ( if we're talking about the US ) maybe, but the 14 eyes... It's just s story at this point, even countries outside the 14 eyes spy on their citizens and make secret deals.. So..
There is "speculation" spread about every single "privacy" focused service for exactly that reason. If you don't trust them, you are not using them. I'm not saying don't be suspicious, but also look at facts that make it unlikely of it being a honeypot.
Right, but there are plenty of easier services to target that provide more sensitive information. If you are a honeypot, you have to be profitable and expand your services or people will move somewhere else. That all takes time and work. Buying other services like SimpleLogin or Standard Notes and integrating their staff into your scheme would be unnecessary complication.
It's not a story. So called 5 eyes, 9 eyes and 14 eyes refers to country agreements to share intelligence and make cooperation instant instead of having to go through proper channels that take time. I'm sure there are many conspiracy theories about specific things that might not be true, but there is no dispute that these agreements exist.
Government run honeypots are usually facilitated by federal agencies, INTERPOL, or EUROPOL, and if they want to run something in a country where they are not welcome it has to be court approved. Hence, it being run in 14 eyes countries, make it easy. Switzerland on the other hand not only requires everything to be approved by their courts, but also require using their specific privacy laws when making determination, which are the strongest in the world.
You only need to look at previous known honeypots to see where they originate and what they target.
@electro1 @ISOmorph imagine your enemy has infinite money, manpower, and resources to turn against you.
why would the DoD give away a weapon like TOR?
why would satoshi release bitcoin at 51% difficulty?
why would Putin allow for the grotesque corruption of the oligarch state?
because they have the other half.
could you please elaborate, or matter of fact, ELI5...
Isn't the whole purpose of having power and control, is to have it all, or make it appear that you're not in control?