33
Proton Mail Helped FBI Unmask Anonymous 'Stop Cop City' Protester (www.404media.co)
submitted 8 months ago by [B] to c/hackernews@lemmy.bestiver.se
4 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

Comments

top 3 comments

sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] 5 points 8 months ago (1 child)

It looks like they only provided the minimum legally required by their jurisdiction. If you want to be immune to this kind of identity discovery you'd need to find a secure email provider that takes either cash or monero, and has a reputation at least as good as Proton's.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • hideshow 1 child comment
    •
    load more comments (1 reply)
    [–] 1 point 8 months ago (1 child)

    Wait what?

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • hideshow 1 child comment
    •
  • [–] 6 points 8 months ago

    The person paid with a credit card. Your credit card identifies you, obviously. Even if Proton doesn't store any of that info, the payment processor will.

    Proton lets you pay via anonymous methods, but this person didn't use one of those methods.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
    • 97 comments in c/privacy@lemmy.ml view that post
    43 comments in c/actually_infuriating@lemmy.world view that post
    37 comments in c/privacy@programming.dev view that post
    33 comments in c/world@lemmy.world view that post
    32 comments in c/protonprivacy@lemmy.world view that post
    21 comments in c/privacy@lemmy.world view that post
    14 comments in c/privacy@lemmy.ml view that post
    11 comments in c/news@lemmy.world view that post