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Proton Mail Discloses User Data Leading to Arrest in Spain (restoreprivacy.com)

submitted 5 months ago by RedditEnjoyer to c/technology

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[–] Sam_Bass 0 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Yes its a good thing the result is what it is, but you watch, theyll try to use it as justification. And as a small(ish) fyi, try running a tracert on whatever site youre looking at. Unless you are directly connected to that site, there are likely multiple hops -domains- that your connection passes through to get from your machine to the target. Each one of those has the potential to read what youre doing and reporting on it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Well not exactly. They might be reading the metadata of your lower level packages.

Unless you're not using encryption, then wth are you even doing?

[–] Sam_Bass -1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

You forget the nsa, interpol. I remember back in the 90s there was a blurb about hackers sniffing packets and using that data to hack those systems. Gotta remember back then everyone had more open ports than shanghai

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I mean yeah, maybe? Are you one of the people that believes aes or ecc has a backdoor? I think we'd know by now, and I'm certain they don't have the compute to break aes256.

[–] Sam_Bass -1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Keep believing that. Just because all those ports are closed to you and me is no guaratee that theyre not being keyed for them

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Yeah sure. There is no perfect security, but your paranoia is not only impractical but conspiratory.

[–] Sam_Bass 1 points 5 months ago

Im not paranoid about anything. I merely read what gets published and sift out the trash