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  • Protonmail website update removes "no logged IPs" claim

    From RS Wood@21:1/5 to All on Wed Sep 8 13:07:34 2021
    From the «because they do» department:
    Feed: The Register
    Title: ProtonMail deletes 'we don't log your IP' boast from website after French
    climate activist reportedly arrested
    Author: Gareth Corfield
    Date: Tue, 07 Sep 2021 07:31:08 -0400
    Link: https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2021/09/07/protonmail_hands_user_ip_address_police/

    Cops can read the SMTP spec too, y'know

    Encrypted email service ProtonMail has become embroiled in a minor scandal after
    responding to a legal request to hand over to Swiss police a user's IP address and details of the devices he used to access his mailbox – resulting in the user's arrest.…



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  • From Oregonian Haruspex@21:1/5 to RS Wood on Fri Sep 17 21:55:33 2021
    RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> wrote:
    From the «because they do» department:
    Feed: The Register
    Title: ProtonMail deletes 'we don't log your IP' boast from website after French
    climate activist reportedly arrested
    Author: Gareth Corfield
    Date: Tue, 07 Sep 2021 07:31:08 -0400
    Link: https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2021/09/07/protonmail_hands_user_ip_address_police/

    Cops can read the SMTP spec too, y'know

    Encrypted email service ProtonMail has become embroiled in a minor scandal after
    responding to a legal request to hand over to Swiss police a user's IP address
    and details of the devices he used to access his mailbox – resulting in the user's arrest.…




    That’s it, I’m going back to using Star Wars MMORPGs for my secret communications.

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