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Proton Mail Helped FBI Unmask Anonymous ‘Stop Cop City’ Protester (www.404media.co)
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they handed over payment info with the real name

https://nationaltoday.com/us/ga/atlanta/news/2026/03/05/protons-privacy-policies-fail-to-fully-protect-payment-info/

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[–] 25 points 8 months ago (7 children)

Payments are very different. Any company is required to keep track of their finances, the tax authorities don't fuck around. If you electronically pay for something and expect anonymity, you are not very, um, educated. If you feel like you need their paid plans, pay cash and only ever access it through TOR running Tails. I feel like that's a reasonable level of opsec for most activists.

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago* (4 children)

    You know that, I know that, people here probably know that.

    But out in the real world where people are doing real world activism and are concerned about real world problems, they don't necessarily know that. They are concerned about a whole lot of things that are not digital infrastructure and technology.

    They should be able to trust a service that promises security and anonymity for payment. In particular one that is touted as well renowned.

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    They should be able to trust a service that promises security and anonymity for payment. In particular one that is touted as well renowned.

    Especially since other groups can manage it properly, e.g. Signal can't link transactions to a specific user account

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago (1 child)

    Should is doing too much work here. Its been doing too much work for our society as a whole. While I agree with your idealist sensibilities I regret to inform you that this needs to stop, you cannot trust institutions built on corporate profit seeking. Like that's just a hard no, it changes on a dime to seek profit somewhere else

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago*

    Hence the romanticism of migrating to Proton needs to be argued every time somebody brings it up. Obviously Proton VPN too is easily compromised. Teach people to spend their money on Mullvad or another service that is able to decouple payment from service account activities.

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